VOL. 24 / NO. 1 / SPRING 2014 61 Summary Better-educated parents generally have children who are themselves better educated, healthier, wealthier, and better off in almost every way than the children of the less educated. But this simple correlation does not prove that the relationship is causal. Neeraj Kaushal sifts through the evidence from economics and public policy and reviews large nation...

Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, we study the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult’s economic welfare and economic activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we find a seemingly high degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the interaction effects between mothers' lifetime depressive/anxiety disorders and other psychosocial correlates of 6 to 11 year-old children's self-reported internalizing symptoms in the Quebec Child Mental Health Survey. METHOD A representative subsample of 1,490 Quebec children aged 6 to 11 years was selected from the original sample. Multiple linear regr...