This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, a...

Health disparities in the United States related to socioeconomic status are persistent and pervasive. This review highlights how social disadvantage, particularly low socioeconomic status and the health burden it brings, is passed from 1 generation to the next. First, we review current frameworks for understanding the intergenerational transmission of health disparities and provide 4 illustrati...

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the individual’s economic outcomes as an adult. We contribute to the literature on intergenerational transmission in two ways. First, we apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify the impact of experiencing poverty while growing up and we provide a sensitivity analysis on the unobserved parent...

Abstract This paper examines to what extent intergenerational mobility shapes both the impact of income inequality on growth as well effect that has poverty and in Africa. Thanks newly available internationally comparable data elasticities education, we confirm detrimental role played by higher opportunity measured mobility. The study concludes neglecting address root causes can be socially eco...

inequalities remain, and these present a major challenge in fighting intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although racial and ethnic disparities in educational outcomes have narrowed, there are large and growing achievement gaps between children from low and high socioeconomic status families. These growing socioeconomic status gaps in achievement have occurred in parallel with growing ga...

in the United States. There are large income-related gaps in all three cognitive measures (literacy, mathematics, and language test score); those in the higher income quintiles have higher scores compared to those in lower income quintiles. Although not as pronounced, gaps in behavioral dimensions of school readiness are also present, with incidence of conduct problems and hyperactivity decreas...

Many U.S. policymakers support changing the "culture" of poor parents to encourage marriage, work, and religion as a means to end the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In this article Jens Ludwig and Susan Mayer review and evaluate research on how parental work, marriage, and religion affect children's socioeconomic status as adults, as well as on the likelihood that changing these ind...

Strong relationships have been hypothesized between the timing of marriage and the familial environment of the couple. Sociologists have identified various mechanisms via which the age at marriage in the parental generation might be related to the age at marriage of the children. In our paper we study this relationship for historical populations. We use a dataset consisting of several hundreds ...