This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

This paper studies the multidimensional nature of investments in children within a dynamic framework. In particular, we … dynamics of skill accumulation. Fourth, we use data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … to estimate the skill production technology for children ages 12 and younger. Our estimates suggest complementarity …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …