understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …

variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father …'s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due … to differences in mean income across neighbourhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002 …

adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …