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 …

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 …

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 …

Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth
inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective …

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' …

New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility—the rate at which children born
into poverty climb the income ladder—varies considerably across the United States. Is this …

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 …

This article shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and
educational attainment in Germany is larger than estimates from two generations suggest …

This study investigates the complex roles of the social environment and genes in the
multigenerational transmission of educational attainment. Drawing on genome-wide data …

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of
intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to …