Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …