transmission of comparative skill advantages. Exploiting within-family between-subject variation in skills, we show that … comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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 …

technology for producing these skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works and that skills matter …. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of … young adulthood. Third, we know how to build foundational skills such as literacy and numeracy, and resources are often the …

improvement in a birth cohort's 8th grade math achievement was associated with an 8 percent rise in income, as well as improved … findings imply that the recent losses would represent a 1.6 percent decline in present value of lifetime earnings for the …

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

Developmental disabilities are not rare among U.S. children and rates have been increasing in recent decades. The …, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children … largely causal. In each case, the parent-child correlation in education is stronger with the parent that spends more time with …

propose a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q …-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms …