We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on … the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that … parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 significantly decreased the likelihood of university admission at age 18. Among the …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead … to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …