Increasing access to diverse types of credit and spreading indebtedness across many social
groups were significant economic developments of the twentieth century and into the twenty …

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 …

Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent
occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children's developmental …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians
became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the …

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 …

Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in
educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution …

Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic
governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more …

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' …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …