We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother’s or father’s education raises children’s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother’s education and less important for father …’s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due … study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing … to differences in mean income across neighbourhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002 …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …