potentially improve children's academic performance and decrease inequality across regions and generations. …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

This paper studies the long-term relationship between parental and child education in Germany, where children are … tracked into academic and non-academic track schools at the age of 10. On average, children are more likely to attend an … academic track school if their parents attended one. Estimating marginal treatment effect curves, we find that there is no …

tutoring. Minority and low-income parents increase engagement and increase both tutoring and in-home homework help. Results … higher quality education. However, there are heterogeneous effects. Non-minority parents decrease engagement, but increase …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … unter 5 Jahren in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen wahrscheinlich nicht ihr volles Entwicklungspotenzial … Determinanten kindlicher Entwicklung auf der Ebene des Kindes, der Eltern, der Schule oder des Landes. Der erste Aufsatz stellt die …