secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …

educational attainment of the next generation were more severe for children with nontertiary-educated parents than those with … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

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 …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

(SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing … maternal well-being can affect not only a woman's own children, but future generations as well. Finally, the chapter highlights …

income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … analysis, we find that the identified circumstances are a vital part of income determination, and even more significant part in … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …