We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are … malleable, for example, via policies targeting education. …

, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest … scenarios. Shifting people from intermediate to higher education levels also increases labor force participation in higher age …