This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and
examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be …

It is widely documented that places with higher levels of income inequality have lower rates
of social mobility. But it is an open question as to whether this reflects a causal relationship …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to
two generations: how parents influence their children. In this study, we use a Swedish data …

This paper uses population register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate
the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce …

This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since
economic reforms were introduced in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity …

We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on
outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish …

Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US?
Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints of the data available …

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada but varies
significantly within each country. Our subnational analysis finds that the national border only …