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 …

adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …

children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …

complex than the biological relationship of parents to children in both Sweden and the United States"--Forschungsinstitut zur …"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as …

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and …