documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates …, earnings, and college attendance vary substantially across the parental income distribution. Notably, the traditional gender … gap in employment rates is reversed for children growing up in poor families: boys in families in the bottom quintile of …

child's probability of attending college and her parents' income rank. We also calculate transition probabilities, such as a … these measures, we find that children entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income … distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of …

. We use survey data on students' expected post-college outcomes to estimate their knowledge about future outcomes, and we … contracts. We find students hold significant private knowledge of their future earnings, academic persistence, employment, and …

children grow up in such environments. These findings suggest that reducing the black-white income gap will require efforts …We study the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in income using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly … disparities varies substantially across racial groups. For example, Hispanic Americans are moving up significantly in the income …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility ….S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when families move, we find that neighborhoods have significant childhood exposure … effects: the outcomes of children whose families move to a better neighborhood - as measured by the outcomes of children …

housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … college attendance rates and earnings for children who were young (below age 13) when their families moved. These children … also live in better neighborhoods themselves as adults and are less likely to become single parents. The treatment effects …