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

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

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 …

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

did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional … achievement scores of Muslim students, especially females. Our analysis further reveals that most of these effects are …

wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does …