variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear …

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 …

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 …

capital are associated with earnings mobility. The results indicate that, while individuals with higher cognitive skills … experience greater earnings stability and upward mobility in both countries, there is only an incremental effect of skills on … for earnings mobility; in both countries, advanced skills at work are associated with greater short-term mobility, even …

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 …

' financial resources amount to about 25% of the effect of parental education on children's income. Third, we show that parents … income -- as a result of changes to parental education -- leads to a 280 SEK increase in children's income. Second … resources, increases children's income by 74 SEK. The relative impacts of these two mechanisms thus suggest that parents …

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two … channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and … decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children …

We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having … determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that children and young adults identified as a having a learning … also find that the mothers of children diagnosed with learning disabilities are less likely than other mothers to …