this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestants’ education motives went beyond reading the bible. …

education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … effects on father's education as on mother's education, we find little evidence that paternal education improves son …

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time … education and school outcomes. …