daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze … income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of …

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and …