stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

to an exceptionally rich set of family characteristics - including income, wealth, education, occupation, crime, and …This paper provides new insights on the importance of family background by linking 1.7 million Dutch children's incomes … health. Using a machine learning approach, I show that conventional analyses using parental income only considerably …

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2 …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational … reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a new approach: using within-family differences in the genetic tendency to … between full siblings are random, making it possible to establish the causal effects of within-family variation in genetic …

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational …, we use differences between individuals in the presence of genetic variants that are associated with differences in skills …, making it possible to establish the causal effects of within-family genetic variation. We link genetic data from individuals …

that summarize genetic variants linked to several components of human capital: cognitive skills, personality traits, mental …

We use a novel approach to explore how people sort into different careers based on their personality skills. We link … that capture the genetic predispositions of individuals towards a range of relevant cognitive skills, personality traits …

less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the …