Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show … income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one … trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations …