School absenteeism is detrimental to life course outcomes and is known to be
socioeconomically stratified. However, the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and …

Nearly 35 years ago, Sampson and Laub popularized the concept of desistance from crime
and isolated core factors that promote and inhibit this process. In this article, we introduce …

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 …

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

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 …

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 number of recent studies by sociologists have sought to discover whether a person's
status (typically their social class, education, or socio-economic status) is directly affected by …

This article reviews the contributions of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to the
study of intergenerational mobility. The PSID enables researchers to track individuals as …

BACKGROUND How cohesive are families and how do they respond to their members'
needs? How do families transmit advantages and disadvantages within and across …

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 …