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 …

it not only includes data on occupational status for the adoptees and their adoptive parents, but also for their … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish … the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for adoptees, both biological and …

of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average …

generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …

We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes … in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …

Two family-specific lotteries take place during conception— a social lottery that determines who our parents are and … which environment we grow up in, and a genetic lottery that determines which part of their genomes our parents pass on to us … socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …