sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings across fine-grained groups defined by parental socioeconomic status …Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

educational attainment and earnings trajectories among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds from mid … outcomes, primarily driven by children of parents from select Asian countries. These individuals are more likely to complete …, health, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. Children of NESB immigrant parents initially earn less than their …

This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on … risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers … with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence …

The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult … its two predecessor international skills surveys. Second, it outlines the main themes which have been investigated to date …

top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose … to insure against intergenerational income falling, generating a correlation between parents' and children's income. We … parents graduated from college, downward educational and income mobility has decreased. High parental income enables parents …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data … findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

-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 …

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