rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in … international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian …

benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that …

outcomes. We document that parents perceive late investments as more productive than early investments, and that they perceive … significantly across socio-economic groups. Perceived returns to parental investments are positively related to household income …, thereby potentially contributing to intergenerational earnings persistence …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … features of successful families and interventions to shape skills at all stages of childhood. The next wave of family studies … summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and …

transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …We study the importance of the extended family - or the dynasty - for the persistence in human capital inequality … enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well …

extended family relative to the parents increases. …We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that …

extended family relative to the parents increases. …We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that …

educational attainment between women and their children. I consider a model of how obesity may influence the accumulation of human … capital and its correlation across generations. Credit constraints for low-income families (who are at higher risk of obesity … outcomes, such as income. Thus, the transmission of obesity between generations may explain a portion of the estimates of …