Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: An Overview (2013, background): “The least well-off families do not have the same chances as children from less poor households of becoming economically secure (Bowles et al., 2005).”
Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children (2014, background): “Thus, identifying the effects of parental socio-economic background on the formation of skills and preferences during childhood has become a central issue for understanding the sources of persistent inequality across social groups and has important implications for the timing of policy interventions”
Saving and Wealth Inequality (2017, unknown): “For surveys about the importance of parental background, see Heckman and Mosso (2014) and Bowles et al. (2009). Second, it assumes that fertility is exogenous and that everyone has the same number of children. Scholz and Seshadri (2007) examine the effects of children in a life-cycle model with endo”