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 …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

parental death. Comparisons are drawn between those children who lost one parent, both parents and those whose parents survived …Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami …

. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

) increases growth rates of national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an analysis involving more … by which education quality appears to improve per capita income levels is through shifting the level of the production … a country's rate of technological progress (very likely). Mortality rates complement income levels as indicators of …

achieve progressivity. Moreover, without separate life tables, despite apparent accounting gains, lower income groups would … suffer welfare losses and higher income groups would enjoy welfare gains through indirect effects of pension systems on labor …