daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

We use data from a large sample of adoptees born in Sweden to study to what extent the well-established association …-birth factors, respectively. We find a significant association between the educational attainment of the adopting parents and child … particular cognitive and non-cognitive skills, may be important …

In this paper, we will investigate the effect of six factors on occupational earnings inequality across all occupations … will receive primary attention in our work and it will be shown that they are important determinants of earnings inequality … demand conditions, as measured by industrial and urban-rural mix, will also be analyzed, and their effect on earnings …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … likely to have children as teenagers. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …

issues by analyzing school district data from grades 3-8 for 2.5 million children linked to tax records on parent … more for retirement. They are also less likely to have children as teenagers. Teachers have large impacts in all grades … from 4 to 8. On average, a one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by about 1 …

(verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight … (including body mass index and obesity) controlling for a rich set of child, parent, and family characteristics. The findings … indicate that, among boys, obesity is associated with reduced verbal skills, social skills, motor skills, and activities of …

.S. educational wage differentials. An increase in the rate of growth of the relative supply of skills associated with the high school …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills …. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity … of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early …