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 …

earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the …

earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the …

groups in the population, in particular, among different income groups. The methodology involved in benefit incidence …