This paper examines the similarity in wealth between parents and their children, and explores alternative explanations … are highly correlated between parents and children. However, they explain little of the intergenerational correlation in ….37, before the transfer of bequests. Lifetime income and ownership of particular assets, both of which exhibit strong …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …