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 …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases. …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the … intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents. …

school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

examine its effect on students' scores on the high-stakes national exam which occurs at the end of high school - the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the … the Xeroxed exam - akin to identical test answers found to have been distributed to numerous students. -- school …