There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests …: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food … children with nutritious food and replaced a hot school meal at the end of the day with similar caloric value but less …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

change parents' resources and restrictions have causal effects on their children …In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents …' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is …

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

larger income losses than displaced workers who stay in the same region. However, the entire post displacement income … difference between movers and stayers is driven by workers moving to regions where parents live or to rural areas …

investments in children with multiple periods of childhood, income shocks, imperfect insurance, dynamic complementarity, and … whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, education is … maximized when income is balanced between the early childhood and middle childhood years. In addition, there is an advantage to …