Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … new estimation technique to address these estimation problems including the mechanical problems associated with repeated …-on-outcome peer effects (which would have been missed without our new estimation technique). Standard estimation methods fail to …