increased over time, for women more so than for men. Also, the educational attainment depends strongly on the educational … attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents …

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … whether the family effect operates through resources - fewer income and parental time available for the child -, or through …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children's educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …

find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is insensitive to the inclusion of comprehensive …We study the intergenerational transmission of time preferences in a setting without reverse causality concerns. We … sets of administratively reported controls and persists as children age. We further explore heterogeneity in the …

even in the second generation. For the children of the foreign-born, parental schooling plays no role in making educational …

. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full-time …