on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … sanctions decreased children's total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage … children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of …

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families …

average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and … attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … across states and counties for both races. We show that schooling choices of white children were highly responsive to the …

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and … attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … across states and counties for both races. We show that schooling choices of white children were highly responsive to the …