We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … investing in their children's test-taking abilities and improving their access to selective tertiary programs; and employers not …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. … children's healthcare utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The effects on most …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … that the "optimal" amount of time that children and adolescents should spend physically active each day varies by the …

problematic for the estimation of the schooling coefficient even if individual unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity are taken … into account. Overall, the findings support the dynamic approach to the estimation of wage-schooling models recently …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …