particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

Why do the children of wealthy parents accumulate more wealth than children from poorer backgrounds? Does parental … much wealth do parents give directly to their children? What other channels are involved in the persistence of wealth from … light on why wealth inequalities persist across generations in the UK,using data that measure the wealth of parents and …

, it is crucial to announce them in advance to allow parents to adjust their investments when their children are young. …Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and …

parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children’s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children’s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …