transmission of comparative skill advantages. Exploiting within-family between-subject variation in skills, we show that … 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 …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …

skills they learned in college are not being fully used. Most of the literature on educational or skill mismatch is based on … dynamics, and its relationship to wages, job satisfaction, and job mobility requires panel data, which can reach more nuanced …

education outcomes, where wages are driven by individuals’ ex ante abilities and acquired math skills. A large portion of within …SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC …

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 … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …

the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …

migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …