income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid … formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students …, labor supply in college, and uncertain returns. Optimal financial aid is strongly declining in parental income even without …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …