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 …

–26) and their parents over nearly two decades which have been linked to survey responses from young people at age 18. The …

assistance if their parents have a history of receiving social assistance themselves. These young people also receive more … case of disability payments, payments for those with caring responsibilities, and parenting payments for single parents …. Disadvantage stemming from parents' poor labor market outcomes seems to be easier for young people to overcome. This suggests that …

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 …

on parents' wealth, grandparents' wealth is weakly positively associated with grandchild's wealth and the parent …