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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 andDistribution in the Family Jere R. Behrman, Robert A. Pollak, Paul Taubman.6: A Transaction Cost Approach to Families and Households Robert A. Pollak7: Tied Transfers and Paternalistic Preferences Robert A. Pollak 8: IsChild 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 UnitedStates: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational EndowmentsModel Jere R. Behrman, Paul Taubman. 11: The Intergenerational Correlationbetween Children's Adult Earnings and Their Parents' Income: Results from theMichigan 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, PaulTaubman. 14: Measuring the Impact of Environmental Policies on the Level andDistribution of Earnings Paul Taubman References Author Index SubjectIndex