We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

, attractiveness, and supervisor's praise. Even education has been mentioned as having a (partially) positional character. However …, there has been only small consideration of education as a positional good in the empirical literature so far. Based on the … literature on positional concerns and the role of education on relative position, I use German panel data to investigate the …