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 …

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 …

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 …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

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 …

educational attainment of the next generation were more severe for children with nontertiary-educated parents than those with … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship aff ects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality …

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality …

program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality …