decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a …

ability, household background variables (especially parents' education) account for 68% of the explained crosssectional … explained variation in wages is accounted for by parents' background variables as opposed to 73% by unobserved abilities …

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

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