We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

, 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 …

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 …

partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance. In this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous … empirical studies is removed and the focus of the analysis placed on models for the conditional variance of income shocks, that … earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for …

It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than … children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio … behaviours of young people and their parents during the teenage years play a key role in explaining the rich-poor gap in GCSE …

follow two cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the …This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …