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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

father's education mainly indicates family connections useful for locating a better-paying first job, while mother …Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a … unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …

.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris paribus they tend to be more frequent among children of parents with lower … both types of the educational mismatch.The quality of education is also a factor, suggesting that in addition to the low … demand for skills, one should also reckon the inability of the educational system to provide work-related skills. Moreover …

rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in … international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian …