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 …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

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

, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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 …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …