Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …

relationship between area of study (self-selection) and progress of study (socialization) on the one hand and risk perception of …

crucially on what parents perceive as the optimal preferences for their children to adopt. Under inter- generationally fixed …

preferences process is endogenized as resulting out of optimal parental socialization decisions. This framework thus endogenously …

. Additionally, they can invest into the success that their displayed culture has in the socialization process of their children. We …, since they aim at countervailing negative cultural influences that their children are exposed to in the society at large … the cultural groups have identical culture. We show that if parents have a desire for cultural closeness to their children …

transmission. In addition to the finding that experiences during religious socialization in the parental home have a stronger …

the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

We study the transmission of risk attititudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in … children when the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of …

generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization - across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique … socialization - within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious … norms and in particular on the 'religious taste for children'. The theoretical framework describes the setting and the …