measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking … workers born in developed countries benefit from positive wage returns to their years of attained-, required and over-education … results show that the wage return to a year of over-education is positive but lower than that to a year of required education …

In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators … find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence … of family background and neighborhood, we estimate neighbor correlations. Our results show that for all outcomes …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

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 …