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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children's schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children's education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …
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We analyze the effect of some circumstances, i.e. exogenously determined individual characteristics, over individual income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme of Equality of Opportunity, this paper identifies as...
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