, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father …

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

, are high. This persistence is correlated with high returns to education, relatively low progressivity in public … investments in education, and inequality of opportunity. An index of inequality of opportunity (including dimensions beyond an …, circumstances explain below 15 % of the observed variance in education, in Chile, they amount to almost half the explained variance …

This paper estimates the causal effect of an additional year of parents' schooling on theirchildren's education … schooling women strongly affects their sons' education. Based on severaldatasets, numerous channels that might mediate the …

This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …