This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education … small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation …

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high …

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …