Are educational outcomes subject to a'grandparent effect'? We comprehensively and critically review the growing literature on this question. Fifty-eight percent of 69 analyses …
Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective …
M Hällsten, FT Pfeffer - American Sociological Review, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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' …
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 …
The issue of whether the social class of grandparents affects grandchildren's socioeconomic outcomes net of the characteristics of the middle generation is much debated in the social …
M Lindahl, M Palme, SS Massih… - Journal of Human …, 2015 - jhr.uwpress.org
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 …
B Lancee, O Sarrasin - European Sociological Review, 2015 - academic.oup.com
While previous studies unequivocally show that education and attitudes towards immigrants correlate, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. The liberalization effect claims that …
G Solon - The Economic Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Multigenerational mobility'refers to the associations in socio‐economic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarising the long‐standing but …
S Møllegaard, MM Jæger - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the effects of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that …