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 …

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. …

of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …

strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a …

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

educational attainment of the next generation were more severe for children with nontertiary-educated parents than those with … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

in the same year that the family migrated. I then use this measure to study the dividing line between the first and …-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth …

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 …

Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement gaps based on family background and immigrant status. Whereas the first … reforms based on high-quality administrative register data, using children's grade point average (GPA) rank at age 15 to 16 …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and … income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … in grade attainment, a key finding is that large socio-economic differentials in the earnings expectations of university …