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 …

children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and …

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the … intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents …