family income, parents' education, race/ethnicity and gender, being better-looking raised subsequent changes in measurements … both data sets show that a substantial part of the economic returns to beauty result indirectly from its effects on …

trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations … child's looks. A large data set of U.S. siblings shows a correlation of their beauty consistent with the same expression of … from the literatures describing the impact of beauty on earnings and the intergenerational elasticity of income suggests …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … show that when health measures from mid-childhood are the subject of analysis, both income and race differences are much … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …

Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race … adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race … characterized as "white". When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is neither white …