Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility,
and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an …

A growing body of cognitive research uses sophisticated behavioral and neuroimaging
measurements to demonstrate associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) and …

That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that
synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches …

Abstract Theory and limited research indicate that race and socioeconomic status (SES)
interact dynamically to shape children's developmental contexts and academic …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy?
We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of …

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In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively
correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio …