trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations …. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show … that a one standard-deviation increase in parents' looks is associated with a 0.4 standard-deviation increase in their …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in …