child outcomes. Social mobility rates on the patriline will differ from that on the matriline. From an extensive family …-2023. Mothers’ and fathers’ education and social status are equally predictive of most child social outcomes across the entire …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an … adopted child being overweight is between 10% and 20% higher than when they are not. We also find that the cultural …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

based on state intestacy laws in cases involving after-born, ART children. Such guidance would have been especially welcome … considering that Congress when passing the Social Security Act did not have ART children in mind, and providing benefits to such … children would have been in accord with some of the purposes behind the Act’s passage …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …