sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

's abilities, and a parachute effect, associated with family labour market connections. …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …