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 …

We propose a twin family model linking twins with their spouses and children to quantify the relative importance of … reveals that shared environments explain 50% for earnings, 60% for income, 70% for wealth, and 80% for schooling. Family …