, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …

This paper examines the effects of introducing compulsory attendance laws on the schooling of U.S. children for three … causal effect of the laws. For men in the 1898-1927 period who reported positive wage income in the 1940 census, compulsory … attendance laws increased schooling and wage income. The OLS estimates of the return to a year of schooling are 8 percent and the …

We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … political ideology and income have increased over the last four decades. Whites and non-whites have converged somewhat on …

Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

findings suggest that even when the U.S. population was largely rural and agricultural, changes in the distribution of income …