essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …

negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … whether income can compensate for the negative effect of hours by adopting a novel mediation analysis that exploits exogenous … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …

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. -- Ability ; intergenerational mobility …

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 …

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 …

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 …