The relationship between completed education and adult cognition is investigated using data from the Indonesia Family … relationship, including genetics and parental preferences and investments. After establishing the importance of shared family … background factors, we document substantively large, significant impacts of education on cognition in models with sibling fixed …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …

family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family …

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we …