between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills …. A causal interpretation of the between-subject estimates is reinforced by novel IV estimation that isolates variation in … skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

children of immigrants catch up with natives. Using administrative data for the Netherlands, we find large gaps in the absolute … substantial heterogeneity by country of origin. Children of immigrants from China actually have higher incomes than natives, which …

responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades …

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …

responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades …