about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …

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

children with US-born parents and those with at least one immigrant parent. We found that children with immigrant parents have …

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …

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 …