. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show … income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one … trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations …

family income, parents' education, race/ethnicity and gender, being better-looking raised subsequent changes in measurements …We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … instrumenting children's looks by their mother's, and do not work through teachers' differential treatment of better …

outcomes. Using a field experiment in which graders at one university were randomly assigned students' exams that did or did … not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …

to preserve joint leisure, and those with higher full incomes consume more of their leisure jointly. Children reduce the …

equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …