inequalities persist across generations. In other words, how do parents transmit social status to children? To what extent is such …This thesis is concerned with a possible answer to the question of why we should care about inequality: children. A … child can no less choose its parents than it can choose its gender or ethnicity. One cannot fault a child for their choice …

experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …