This study examines the effects of parental labor market activities on children's education attainment. In contrast to … the existing literature we consider parental experiences until the children graduate from school. In addition, the effects … drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel an ordered probit estimator is used to model children's education attainment …

parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …

between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills …. A causal interpretation of the between-subject estimates is reinforced by novel IV estimation that isolates variation in … skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …