variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear …

Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement gaps based on family background and immigrant status. Whereas the first … reforms based on high-quality administrative register data, using children's grade point average (GPA) rank at age 15 to 16 …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and … income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … in grade attainment, a key finding is that large socio-economic differentials in the earnings expectations of university …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and … income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … in grade attainment, a key finding is that large socio-economic differentials in the earnings expectations of university …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

capital are associated with earnings mobility. The results indicate that, while individuals with higher cognitive skills … experience greater earnings stability and upward mobility in both countries, there is only an incremental effect of skills on … for earnings mobility; in both countries, advanced skills at work are associated with greater short-term mobility, even …

' financial resources amount to about 25% of the effect of parental education on children's income. Third, we show that parents … income -- as a result of changes to parental education -- leads to a 280 SEK increase in children's income. Second … resources, increases children's income by 74 SEK. The relative impacts of these two mechanisms thus suggest that parents …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having … determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that children and young adults identified as a having a learning … also find that the mothers of children diagnosed with learning disabilities are less likely than other mothers to …

Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the … relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across … non-cognitive skills as drivers of these penalties. In contrast, controlling for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity …