persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

, and credit records, to identify the effects of increased student borrowing on credit-constrained students' educational …

seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …

of children from poorer families …

, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely …

distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative admissions policies. We … students. The first--highly ranked students at schools which previously sent few students to the flagship university …--gain access due to the policy; the second--students outside the top tier at traditional "feeder" high schools--tend to lose access …