Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income … income redistribution, and the efficacy of various policy tools, economists are also concerned with establishing how various …. Economists have constructed various theories that purport to explain income distribution. Some aspects of these theories have …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … to children. Using the efficiency concepts proposed in Golosov, Jones, and Tertilt (2007), we find that whenever the …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

provide new evidence on this question, showing that children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be …