daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

, 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 …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other …We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … purposes, and parents can transfer cash to their child. We show that for an identifiable set of parent-child pairs, parents …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

educational mobility by exploiting within-family variation from children whose families moved during primary school age. While …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the …Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal …