personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and … locus of control of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of … their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who are more involved in the …

sibling correlations. This share is higher than all previous studies because we allow for heterogeneous intergenerational …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made possible by linking Korean-born children who were adopted at infancy …

out from school. This reveals that paternal crime imposes a double penalty on children: it increases their probability of …

the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching … than the children of non-teacher mothers. This rate of occupational transmission is significantly larger than for several …

educational outcomes for the next generation. This study examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children … not affect children's educational outcomes or parental investment in their children. Taken together, these findings …'s children after the war ended in 1975. …

-5, 6-11, and 12-17 on the value of the home children own at ages 29-33. For the youngest age group, we find that 12.7% of … largely reflect changes to parental/household behaviors and preferences that are passed down to children and cause them to …

-5, 6-11, and 12-17 on the value of the home children own at ages 29-33. For the youngest age group, we find that 12.7% of … largely reflect changes to parental/household behaviors and preferences that are passed down to children and cause them to …