persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. -- Ability ; intergenerational mobility …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …