persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

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 …

) increases growth rates of national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an analysis involving more … by which education quality appears to improve per capita income levels is through shifting the level of the production … a country's rate of technological progress (very likely). Mortality rates complement income levels as indicators of …

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

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

of children from poorer families …

, 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 …