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 …

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 …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our main conclusion is that family background appears to exert greater influence on economic …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the effects of family and … accurate than those of many earlier studies. We find substantial disadvantages in economic status for black men, men from lower-income …

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …