This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend …

friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …

-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back … to 1850 by changing income. We find that our proposed mechanism can account for 37 percent of the decline in the number …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare … later. Total income does not change because earnings replace disability benefits. The government earns a discounted annual …

income growth from 1950 to 1980 as a proxy for socioeconomic forces that created unbalanced physical growth among southern … children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the …