In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

in a linked panel of full-count US census data. Exposure to CS laws led to comparable increases in education levels for … sorting into higher education and higher income occupations) ii) assortative mating on education, and iii) geographic mobility …

evidence that the OLS estimates of the effect of ethnic capital on intergenerational transmission of education are biased …

follows an instrumental variable (IV) approach, instrumenting parental education with years of compulsory schooling. I find … some evidence of a causal relationship between parents' and children's education. The magnitude of the estimated effect is … large: an additional year of parental education raises the child's education by 0.44 of a year. I also find that maternal …