variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income …

understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …