This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …

characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and …

potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German … pathways of the family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors ability and skills, study … characteristics, and social capital are important mediators of the family background effects. …

results suggest that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent well …. Results from intergenerational correlations suggest that parental characteristics are considerably less important than family …

that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent wellbeing. The influence is … intergenerational correlations suggest that parental characteristics are considerably less important than family and community factors. …

Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries … that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator … that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results suggest that family background affects employment prospects and job …