stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …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 … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six … disentangle how the patterns vary according to individual skills, defined in terms of both educational levels and percentiles of … the unconditional earnings distribution. Unlike previous studies, and in contrast with the expectations prompted by the …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes …’s socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between-sibling variation …

children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers - on …

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, children's 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 …