This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …

constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …

bias). We work with three instruments: number of schools by the time parents were children; family factor changes across …We study the impacts of family income and parental education on the probability of children’s schooling delay using the … 1996 PNAD. With the adoption of some hypotheses about the links between generations of children, parents and grandparents …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

welchen Einfluss Risikoeinstellungen von Eltern auf das Bildungsverhalten von Kindern ausüben. In der Studie untersuchen wir … educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parent's risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our …

of the foreign born and of the native born with native-born parents. Teenage immigration is associated with fewer years … of schooling compared to those who immigrated at pre-teen or post-teen ages. The gender difference in educational …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …