This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

Linear instrumental variable regressions are widely used to estimate causal effects. Many
instruments arise from the use of “technical” instruments and more recently from the …

We examine intergenerational mobility in the very long run, across generations that are six
centuries apart. We exploit a unique dataset containing detailed information at the individual …

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 …

A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150
years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and …

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have
been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking …

A recent literature studies the role of grandparents in status transmission. Results have been
mixed, and theoretical contributions highlight biases that complicate the interpretation of …

Studies of social mobility often focus on two generations, measuring how one's education,
income or other outcomes are associated with that of one's parents. But how persistent are …

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin
America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on …

The focus of this paper is the impact of parental cultural capital on offspring's occupational
choice in relation to entrepreneurship. Despite growing interest to cultural motives for …