We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children's schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children's education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …

There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course … residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US shows that children from … households, schools, and places of work and leisure, which may also influence their outcomes. For children and adolescents, the …

personality. By studying a sample of adopted children whose parents are respondents of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we …