The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...

We study the role of subjective social status on health and its determinants, with a particular emphasis on the predictive power of early-life conditions on subjective social status. A well-established literature links early-life conditions to later-life objective measures of socioeconomic...

For the first time, a genealogical mass database is used to determine multigenerational socio-economic mobility of up to eight contiguous generations. The example of Germany (1600-1900) shows that in an AR(1) model, higher multigenerational stability of socio-economic status is measured the more...