Das vorliegende Papier betrachtet den Zusammenhang des Trinkverhaltens von Eltern und dem späteren Alkoholkonsum ihrer …This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional …

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 …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

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

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …

Das vorliegende Papier betrachtet den Zusammenhang des Trinkverhaltens von Eltern und dem späteren Alkoholkonsum ihrer …This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children's alcohol consumption, conventional …

intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …