Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family … intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data … findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …. -- intergenerational mobility ; nature and nurture ; income ; education ; adoption data … adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and …

parents'country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents' time in Sweden on their children's performance in … Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts …This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents' incorporation experiences, measured as time in …

transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …We study the importance of the extended family - or the dynasty - for the persistence in human capital inequality … enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well …

extended family relative to the parents increases. …We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that …

extended family relative to the parents increases. …We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that …

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and … community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings … between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and … community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings … between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …