This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about … income-fertility profile would-through the equalization of initial conditions-increase intergenerational mobility by 6%. The …

a paucity of representative datasets containing linked information on parents and children, the inequality of …, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes. We find that, whereas the income mobility literature is hampered by …