connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

in a family. Individuals' educational outcomes may be affected by a change in their parents' fertility decision. The …-only child. The authors try to estimate the change of educational outcomes when the only child of a family turns to the child …

Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …