This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

We study how fathers’ and mothers’ income satisfaction correlate with the income satisfaction of their sons and … daughters, as well as with other economic and sociodemographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …

between the causal effects of parental income and parental education levels. Least squares estimation reveals conventional … results – weak effects of income (when the child is 16), stronger effects of maternal education than paternal, and stronger … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …

-compulsory schooling. Research on this topic has been problematic partly because omitted unobservables, like parents’ incomes and education …

Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children … variation in CB so we infer that parents are sufficiently altruistic towards their children that they completely insure them …. For example, in the US the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all children, costs almost $1 …