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 …

Metrics matter for policy and policy matters for well-being. In this report, the co-chairs of the
OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and …

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 …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic
of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data …

This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and
examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be …

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

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading
economists and statisticians" If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to …

This report reviews evidence on intergenerational mobility and the transmission of
socioeconomic advantages from parents to children. The review examines conceptual …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social
networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social …