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Intelligence and its uses.

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Intergenerational Mobility in the Labor Market

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Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins

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Regression Toward Mediocrity in Economic Stature

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Testing common sense.

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Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality

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The heritability of IQ

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Class and Conformity

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An evaluation of the attempts to measure social intelligence.

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Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation

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Measuring Social Mobility

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

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The Determinants of Earnings: Genetics, Family, and Other Environments; A Study of White Male Twins

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Genetics and general cognitive ability

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What do Twins Studies Reveal About the Economic Returns to Education? A Comparison of Australian and US Findings

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Social Stratification across Three Generations: New Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

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Who Gets Ahead

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Parents and children: incomes in two generations.

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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States

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Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives

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Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity.

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Economic and mechanical models of intergenerational transmission.

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Intergenerational mobility of socio-economic status in comparative perspective

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Further estimates of the economic return to schooling from a new sample of twins

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Estimates of the return to schooling in Sweden from a large sample of twins

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The "Inheritance of IQ" and the Intergenerational Reproduction of Economic Inequality

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Achievement, Test Scores and Relative Wages

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The Inheritance of Economic Status.

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Monotone mobility matrices

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The Memberships Theory of Inequality: Ideas and Implications

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On the Evolution of Economic Status Across Generations

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The power of personality: Labor market rewards and the transmission of earnings

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The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling

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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

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Essays on endogenous preferences and public generosity

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