individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … siblings and own parental education. We find that boys with sisters have worse employment prospects than boys with no sisters …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …. -- intergenerational mobility ; nature and nurture ; income ; education ; adoption data … adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and …

. This paper addresses two main research questions: first, it estimates the importance of the level of skills and education … period that has been characterised most notably by an increase in income inequality and the heterogeneous pattern of this … channel via which a family's sociocultural background has an impact on its labour market status …

personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …

transmission of comparative skill advantages. Exploiting within-family between-subject variation in skills, we show that … comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

parents'country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents' time in Sweden on their children's performance in … Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts …This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents' incorporation experiences, measured as time in …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii …) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting …

social contact. In this paper, we use microdata from the China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of guardian …'s internet use on teenager's cognitive skills. Using mobile internet users and base station density as instruments, we found that … exploration of the mechanism shows that internet usage affects cognitive skills through monetary investment, time investment, and …