Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of …

terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age …

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

research in the field andoutline directions for future research.[...] …