transmission of income and education to their children … examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … intergenerational transmission of educational attainment, income and health vary when a child is being raised by adoptive rather than …

purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno … of Christian and Druze children are less dependent on their family characteristics compared to Muslim and Jewish children … Jewish children from disadvantaged strata face in schools attended by those from affluent strata. Family background is more …

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 …

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … income, we find no effect of maternal education. Under certain assumptions, paternal education remains significant (for …