effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive ability measure (AFQT), family background variables and unobserved … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … structural factors. Yet, structural factors, like the legacy of slavery, may be key to understanding how race and family … U.S. South. Results: There is an impact of the legacy of slavery on Black-White inequality in poverty even within family …

extended family households. This paper seeks to characterise the economies of household size in Indigenous and other Australian … their families and households. Indigenous households are more likely to have more than one family in residence than other …

between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …