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 …

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 …

children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … 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 …

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 …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …