Does family income matter for schooling outcomes? Using adoption as a natural experiment

By E. Plug, W. Vijverberg. 2002

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Long-Term Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations (2015, background): “…stems from the so- called Malmö Study (GEMS − Generations Emanating from the Malmö Study), a survey initiated in 1938 by a team of Swedish educational researchers.11 All pupils attending third grade, normally at the age of ten and born in 1928 in any school in the Malmö metropolitan area…”
Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health. (2010, background): “Whereas Duyme et al. (1999) are unable to distinguish whether income or some correlated aspect of the family or community environments of higher SES families was responsible for the differential IQ gains, Plug and Vivjerberg (2005) show that genetically unrelated adoptees who have better access to”