Parental education and children's health throughout life
Abstract
Socio-economic differences in health and health-related behaviors can be pivotal to understand socio-economic inequalities in education and labor market outcomes. The education of parents is an important, if not the most important, characteristic to describe children’s socio-economic background. Increased parental education substantially changes the environment in which children grow up, it changes the investments into children, and these changes start to happen early in children’s life. This chapter summarizes the literature on effects ...
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