fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education focusing on the interplay between family and neighborhood … the education attained by children. This model proposes a mechanism explaining why and how they are of importance …’s education. A novel finding with respect to previous US studies is that family is of importance for children with highly …

' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

individual observations, we show that Black male incarceration lowers the odds of non-marital teenage fertility and increases …

’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …

, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …