adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

-birth factors, respectively. We find a significant association between the educational attainment of the adopting parents and child …

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 …

mother's or father's education raises children's education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1 …We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …