connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to …

-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in … progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children’s educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality …

extended family relative to the parents increases …We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages than stayers. This empirical fact suggests substantial skill selection effects … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …