We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … regressing children's schooling on parents' schooling is mainly accounted for by the correlation between parents' schooling and …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) raises parents' earnings and how much these earnings effects … enrolling in a full-day UPK program in New Haven, Connecticut on parents' labor market outcomes as well as educational … expenditures and children's academic performance. During children's pre-kindergarten years, UPK enrollment increases weekly …

from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … income growth from 1950 to 1980 as a proxy for socioeconomic forces that created unbalanced physical growth among southern …