Description: Introduction 1: Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 2: Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 3: Do Parents Favor Boys? Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 4: Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 5: The Wealth Model: Efficiency in Education and Distribution in the Family Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman. 6: A Transaction Cost Approach to Families and Households Robert A. Pollak 7: Tied Transfers and Paternalistic Preferences Robert A. Pollak 8: Is Child Schooling a Poor Proxy for Child Quality? Jere R. Behrman 9: Schooling and Other Human Capital Investments: Can the Effects Be Identified? Jere R. Behrman 10: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 11: The Intergenerational Correlation between Children's Adult Earnings and Their Parents' Income: Results from the Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 12: On Heritability Paul Taubman 13: Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 14: Measuring the Impact of Environmental Policies on the Level and Distribution of Earnings Paul Taubman References Author Index Subject Index

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