It is widely recognized that intergenerational transmission is one of the primary causes of persistent social inequality. To what extent is a child’s cognitive development, which is highly related to their school performance and future labor market outcomes, impacted by their parents’...

Although a growing body of economic research has focused on the intergenerational transmission of parents’ cognitive abilities to their children’s cognitive development, little is known regarding how family economic constraint impacts this transmission. By exploiting the implementation of...