In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

improves her skills but also creates a better parent for the next generation …

the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language, field-specific, and non-cognitive skills. Graduates of longer programs, of …. Returns to skills vary along the wage distribution, with tenure, with the field of specialization and the type of job obtained …