fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …