' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …

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. …

: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education … small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …