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 …

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 …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

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 …

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 …

Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working
class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in …

Stephan, 18, will soon graduate from high school, and has been offered places in several
good universities, but he is undecided not only on which offer to accept, but also on whether …

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 analyzes the effects of grandparents' economic, cultural, and social capital on
grandchildren's educational success. We analyze data from Denmark and hypothesize that …