This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on … risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers … with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence …

This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on … risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers … with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence …

of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …

transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had … parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the …

children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of … major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of … the form of weak-tie career support in the earnings function. We shed light on the structure of the wage gap between those …

, however, still limited regarding educational transitions later in life, such as into tertiary education. Is parental … overall effect of family background, a sibling analysis is performed. The data is derived from the German Socioeconomic Panel …

, however, still limited regarding educational transitions later in life, such as into tertiary education. Is parental … overall effect of family background, a sibling analysis is performed. The data is derived from the German Socioeconomic Panel …

on the estimated relationship between education and income is sizeable. We do so using family background variables and …Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US …. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …