There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

Objective This paper examines the long-term impact of parental loss in early years on family formation as adults in U.S. cohorts born between 1850 and 1910, focusing on age assortative mating and th.....

Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same

Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…

Abstract. In this article we study differences in levels of educational inequality across European countries and regions. We address two research questions. First, we ask whether educational inequalit...

​The PhD program in Life Course Research will train a new generation of highly skilled scholars relying on an evidence-based approach, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and data analysis.

Evidence shows that immigrants are often in better health than the native born—the so-called ‘immigrant health paradox’—and this advantage may extend to their children’s health. A commonly cited bu...

A translation of an op-ed that I have published in El Pais on the 30/11/2024 As is well known in Spain, the Autonomous Community of Madrid is leading a political ... Read more

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Figures and data for Temperature and fertility: Evidence from Spain

Previous studies have examined how cash transfers affect children’s education and health regardless of sibship size. I examine the long-run consequences of a Dutch reform that gradually curtailed chil...

The link between social class and income is well-known, but much less is known about class and wealth, write Carlos Gil-Hernández, Pedro Salas-Rojo, Guillem Vidal-Lorda and Davide Villani, despite …