We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data … findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family … intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …

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 …

' financial resources amount to about 25% of the effect of parental education on children's income. Third, we show that parents … income -- as a result of changes to parental education -- leads to a 280 SEK increase in children's income. Second … resources, increases children's income by 74 SEK. The relative impacts of these two mechanisms thus suggest that parents …

skills and traits when children are small as well as the choices, in terms of family formation and human capital investments …Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … largely disappear if we remove the impact of family background factors using twin (or sibling) fixed effects. For males, human …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

family environment and genetic factors for children's outcomes. We describe the pros and cons of various approaches as well … as key findings. The third strand is concerned with drawing causal inferences about how children's outcomes are affected … by specific features of their family environment. We discuss a wide range of environmental features, including the …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …. -- intergenerational mobility ; nature and nurture ; income ; education ; adoption data … adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …