We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

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 …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …. Their children also attend better schools and live in neighborhoods with less crime …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …