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 …

of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and school attendance of … children 6 to 24 years old. It surveys the international literature to establish how the problem has been approached and what … survey data for the Philippines to explain what determines the decision to keep children in school. The model specifically …

indicators for family welfare not only in terms of its investment and income generation prospects but also, and perhaps more … importantly given pervasive borrowing constraints and limited social security coverage, because it provides protection from income … survey in the analysis. The results show that, on average, the impact of additional children on household savings is negative …