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 … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

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 …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find …Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which … that: (i) the positive association between parental income and off-spring probability of inventing is greatly reduced when …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … parents, 31% for the 2013 cohort chose this option. Our hypothesis is that the declining availability of 'matched jobs' that … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …