The aim of this paper is to analyze whether parents' fertility behavior may be an important determinant the future outcomes their children in Spain. To address issue, we use data from Survey Living Conditions. Our results confirm intergenerational transmission higher parents’ number children, that individuals have. We find regions where parents have few 0.02 fewer because differences parental f...

One in five U.S. residents under the age of 18 has at least one foreign-born parent. Given the large proportion of immigrants with very low levels of schooling, the strength of the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant parent and child has important repercussions for the future of social stratification in the United States. We find that the educational transmission proce...

It is widely believed that countries with greater levels of income inequality also have lower levels of intergenerational mobility. This relationship, known as the Great Gatsby Curve (GGC), has been prominently cited by high-ranking public policy makers, best-selling authors and Nobel Prize winning academics. Yet relatively little cross-national work has empirically examined the mechanisms thou...