Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …

Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates … for identification within the same data: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. We find no effect of mothers …' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …

There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests …: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education …

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …