We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …

In this paper we study the process of children's skill formation. The identification of this process is challenging … because children's skills are observed only through arbitrarily scaled and imperfect measures. Using a dynamic la- tent factor …. Moreover, we find that the marginal productivity of early investments is substantially higher for children with lower existing …

likelihood for children of uneducated parents to complete primary school. Overall, the evidence suggests that geographic and … differences in mobility reflect spatial sorting or their independent role. To isolate the two, we focus on children whose families …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …. Finally, feedbacks from new health events to household income are one of the reasons that underlie the strength of the income …