Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for … free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and grandchildren. The outcome measures include literacy, whether a child … interpretations of father-son correlations in income and socioeconomic status. The data used are from the 1880 and 1920 1 percent …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … income and status and compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status …) during the four years following an income (status) change. In the short-run (current year) a one standard deviation increase …