tutoring. Minority and low-income parents increase engagement and increase both tutoring and in-home homework help. Results … higher quality education. However, there are heterogeneous effects. Non-minority parents decrease engagement, but increase …

educational attainment between women and their children. I consider a model of how obesity may influence the accumulation of human … capital and its correlation across generations. Credit constraints for low-income families (who are at higher risk of obesity … outcomes, such as income. Thus, the transmission of obesity between generations may explain a portion of the estimates of …

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …