Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their adoptive families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …

transmission of income and education to their children … examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … intergenerational transmission of educational attainment, income and health vary when a child is being raised by adoptive rather than …

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 …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their "adoptive" families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …