, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

versus snapshot parental income measures. The most predictive ages of children when family resources are measured vary by the … participation in crime. Parental financial resources partially offset deficiencies in nonpecuniary inputs to children's human …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. -- Ability ; intergenerational mobility …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

income losses than displaced workers who stay in the same region. This is not a selection effect, but reflects the fact that … if they have family in the region where they already live, and job loss stimulates workers to relocate with parents and … siblings when they live in different regions. Looking at earnings we find that the entire post displacement income difference …

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … heterogeneity (allowed to be correlated with observed characteristics), income effects vary substantially with age and have lost … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings … earlier born children have higher IQs. Our preferred estimates suggest differences between first-borns and second-borns of … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown. …