This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …

behaviours displayed by children in their first year of schooling. As children living in low socioeconomic status (SES) families …; Robinson, Mandelco, Olsen, & Hart, 2001). Teachers (n = 21) rated children on how frequently they engaged in fifteen behaviours … explained a small proportion of the variance in child externalising behaviours, highlighting the need to educate parents in …

We study how fathers’ and mothers’ income satisfaction correlate with the income satisfaction of their sons and … daughters, as well as with other economic and sociodemographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …

between the causal effects of parental income and parental education levels. Least squares estimation reveals conventional … results – weak effects of income (when the child is 16), stronger effects of maternal education than paternal, and stronger … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …

to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …

This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data … for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability. The results … show that children whose fathers teach at third level or whose mothers teach at second level do better and these effects …

result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort studies, evidence was … parents’ height and weight using one of the datasets. No evidence of any such relationship is found. …