might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects … family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics … characteristics, and social capital are found to be important mediators of the family background effects. …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family … fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … into school and post-school achievement. The same conceptual framework applies at both stages, but a correlation is … with respect to the impact of family background and cohorts. However, there are significant dissimilarities depending on …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family …

children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …

There are noticeable differences between the roles that various forms of credit financing play in family businesses and … in other businesses. Family businesses take out more often bank loans specifically to finance investments and innovations … these differences in financing choices? Do family businesses tend to use shorter-term, more expensive sources of financing …