examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … biological parents. Results suggest that both the biological and the nurturing parents contribute a great deal to the … transmission of income and education to their children …

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 …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end … taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low …-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …

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 …

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …