, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from … sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics …Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings … might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings across fine-grained groups defined by parental socioeconomic status …Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

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. …

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. …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the … unobserved family, community, and school factors shared by siblings when growing up together. The estimates suggest that sibling …

We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having … determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that children and young adults identified as a having a learning … also find that the mothers of children diagnosed with learning disabilities are less likely than other mothers to …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in … international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian …