Intergenerational mobility in education and income is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system …

analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …) translates into greater dependence from parental background. These effects are reinforced when moving to post-secondary education …

their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation and personal social services. In addition, the labour market and …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …