This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and
examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations …

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for
social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

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' …

We study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant
students. Controlling for the quality of schools and socioeconomic characteristics, students …

This study presents a thorough investigation of the relationship between the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) and daily stock price changes. We use several types of COVID-19 …

This article aims to measure and understand the role of inheritances in shaping wealth
inequality. We use a quasi-experimental design and Swedish administrative data to …