Studies of US intergenerational mobility focus almost exclusively on the transmission of (dis)advantage from parents to … children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field … associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the children …Socioeconomic inequalities in child development crystallize at early stages, with associated disparities in parental …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents …In the United States, child support guidelines sometimes generate surprising and presumably unintentional child support …A child support calculation framework is constructed that takes as inputs the subjective/normative decisions that the …

: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood …Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common …. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and adults, and economists have begun to estimate the causal relationship …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …

relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children …If the expenditure of resources in childhood affects the outcomes in adulthood, the adult distribution of education and … incomes will depend at least partially on investments made in childhood. There is considerable variation in the amount of …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children … of variation yield strikingly similar patterns which show that the strong parent-child correlation in human capital is …