We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … life. For the average low-income single-child family in our sample this difference amounts to roughly $1,300, or 10 percent …

Developmental disabilities are not rare among U.S. children and rates have been increasing in recent decades. The …