Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

largely determined by their parents' incomes. Investigating possible causal channels, we find that parental education …

-term outcomes such as education, teenage pregnancy, occupation, mortality, and victimization …

types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of women …. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a …