In this paper we explore the association between family income and children's cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …

intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children …. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth … is associated with beneficial behaviours or because parental health is associated with both income and children¿s health …

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children's cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …