Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … adult socioeconomic status. This paper presents new evidence of the importance of family income in the formation and … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings …

average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …

contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family … effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a …

years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …

of US schools, reshaping the group of peers with whom students age through adolescence. US-born students are more likely … to have foreign-born peers and foreign-born students are more likely to be educated outside of enclaves. This study … examines the short-term and long-term impact of being educated with immigrant peers, for both US-born and foreign-born students …

Although the measurement of intergenerational income mobility has seen a rapid increase in attention and policy … estimates of intergenerational income mobility because educational mobility both contributes to income mobility and is a target …

of siblings in the determination of children's human capital as well as the potential for typically uncounted benefits to … improving children's health through family multiplier effects …