Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

This paper examines the causal relationship between parents' education and that of their children in Norway. In 1959 … effect of the reform was to reduce the proportion of people with fewer than nine years of education from 12 percent to three … percent, with a new spike at nine years. For mothers, there is a positive effect of maternal education on the education of …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …