This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an …. We exploit differences in the timing of family mobility and the partial overlap of schools and neighborhoods to … separately identify sorting from community and family effects. We find that family is far more important than community in …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important …

, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on … teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework. Using administrative data on the Danish population we find that (1) family … quality on long-term earnings is overestimated if the family component is ignored, and becomes negligible and not …

correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …