opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …

concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and … grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a …

likelihood for children of uneducated parents to complete primary school. Overall, the evidence suggests that geographic and … differences in mobility reflect spatial sorting or their independent role. To isolate the two, we focus on children whose families …