Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by
families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

In diesem Kapitel wird zunächst grundsätzlich zwischen der aktiven Generierung von Daten
und der Auswahl aus bereits vorhandenem Material (natürlichen Daten) unterschieden …

Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially
egalitarian property law, showing how legal professionals—wittingly and unwittingly—help …

The authors use administrative data linked to parish records from northern Sweden to study
how persistent inequality is across multiple generations in education, occupation, and …

This article describes how legal professionals and families contribute to the widening,
legitimation and concealment of the gender wealth gap. It is based on ethnographic …

Housing wealth is the single largest portion of household wealth in most Western societies
today, yet little research has examined how individuals make decisions regarding the use of …

Moral and pragmatist sociology has studied capitalism as a set of institutions that require
justification, which has historically been offered through forms of rewarding and meaningful …

Inheritance represents a conflict between the individual and society. On one hand, the
intergenerational transmission of resources favors the reproduction of privilege. On the other …

Objective This article explores the conjugal testamentary practices of married and cohabiting
people aged 25–50 depending on having children from other unions, shared children, and …