to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …

-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Seats are allocated based on prior achievement with 70 percent reserved for … design, we find no effect on test scores or college attendance for students from high- or low-SES neighborhoods and positive … effects on student reports of their experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate significant negative …

in life along multiple measures. We also find that the children of those exposed also experience improved health and … benefits of social interventions in a middle-income country. …

non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …

experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from …-to-costs ratios and find ratios clearly above one. Universal preschool tends to be more beneficial for children with low socioeconomic …

enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well … transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …

are used to approximate lifetime income. However, little is known about biases in other popular dependence measures. We … use long Swedish income series to provide such evidence for linear and rank correlations, and rank-based transition … from short-run income suggest. …