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 …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …

the child does not reciprocate. Parents and children make investments in the child's education, investments for other …We discuss a simple model of intergenerational transfers with one-sided altruism: parents care about their child but … purposes, and parents can transfer cash to their child. We show that for an identifiable set of parent-child pairs, parents …

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …