This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

, household income, and household wealth - and the health outcomes investigated span multiple dimensions as well. International …-country differences in levels of income equality and mortality as among the most compelling evidence that unequal societies have negative … top. This social health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth is used as the marker of SES. While …

measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …

In this paper we reassess the evidence on labor income risk. There are two leading views on the nature of the income … process in the current literature. The .first view, which we call the .Restricted Income Profiles.(RIP) process, holds that … individuals are subject to large and very persistent shocks, while facing similar life-cycle income profiles. The alternative view …

which measures of SES are used (income, wealth, or education), the evidence that this association is large is abundant …

aspects such as income or wealth or nonfinancial dimensions like education? Finally, is there a life course component to the …