We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course … residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US shows that children from … households, schools, and places of work and leisure, which may also influence their outcomes. For children and adolescents, the …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children …

-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …