quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent … friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the … more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences …

Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have … status gets transmitted to their children. Once we add additional mediators to the model, we show that education, and … particularly children's education, is an important transmission channel in that it reduces the IHA by one third. Finally, we show …

absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to parents, parents will fund their earlier investments in their sons by … increasing their labor supply. Consistent with this, we show that parents with more adult sons delay their retirement. In … parent with all daughters. Elderly parents also work between 1.8 and 2.7 hours more per week when their sibship consists of …

than income mobility in the US. A possible explanation is that social institutions and policies are more effective at … disrupting intergenerational health transmission than income transmission. We further show that health and income each capture a … of health mobility compared with income mobility and also find some evidence that there has been a notable decline in …

more strongly associated with children's health than parents' physical health indicating that mental health might be a more … mental health is at least as persistent across generations as physical health. Importantly, parents' mental health is much … important transmission channel. Finally, we construct an overall measure of welfare that combines income and health, and …

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …