It is well known that there is a strong link between children's family background and their performance at school but it is much less clear what drives this relationship. A new study by Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey has investigated how a mother's education affects her children's school performance.
Authors
Costas Meghir
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Pedro Carneiro
Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS' Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
Matthias Parey
Matthias is a research Fellow of the IFS, a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey and a Research Fellow at the IZA.
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