adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on …

complex than the biological relationship of parents to children in both Sweden and the United States. …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as …

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

specific knowledge of what it is about family background that really matters. Studies on intergenerational income mobility show … that parental income matters to some extent, but they also show that more than half of the family background and community … influences that siblings share are not even correlated with parental income. In this paper, we employ a data set that contains …