Are educational outcomes subject to a'grandparent effect'? We comprehensively and
critically review the growing literature on this question. Fifty-eight percent of 69 analyses …

Human capital theory assumes that education determines the marginal productivity of labour
and this determines earnings. Since the 1960s, it has dominated the economics, and policy …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education is a longer
version of the three Clark Kerr Lectures on Higher Education delivered on September 30 …

We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of
kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more …

Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth
brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) …

This paper analyzes the effects of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on
grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that …

We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on
outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish …

Despite long-standing recognition of the importance of family background in shaping life
outcomes, only recently have empirical studies in demography, stratification, and other …

Recent studies have argued that grandparents have a direct effect on grandchildren's
achievements, net of parental resources. However, little is known about the underlying …