sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings across fine-grained groups defined by parental socioeconomic status …Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data … findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children …") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools in Sweden's most disadvantaged city districts. The aim of the …

skills and traits when children are small as well as the choices, in terms of family formation and human capital investments …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … largely disappear if we remove the impact of family background factors using twin (or sibling) fixed effects. For males, human …

for boys and students with low ability and/or low-educated parents. Using PISA survey data, we provide evidence that …

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate occupational and industrial mobility of individuals over the … associated with lower earnings, though this effect has lessened somewhat over time, while for women the results are mixed. Our …

whether the intergenerational association in education and income is the same for children with different results in a … the policy relevant case to analyze, i.e. whether children of a certain cognitive ability level are influences by their … parents' socioeconomic status and not whether they are influenced by some random parent. The intergenerational associations …