This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional … achievement scores of Muslim students, especially females. Our analysis further reveals that most of these effects are …

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

discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of …We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … rates and age specific estimates of the response of transfers and wealth to permanent income to compute the expected present …

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 …

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 …

women, their parents and their siblings. We estimate the model using data on matched sibling and parent-child pairs from the …

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 …