inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society … study the degree to which spouses sort on the basis of parental wealth. We find that the estimated correlation in parental … wealth among married spouses, after controlling for race and age, is about .4. Importantly, we show that controlling for …

inheritances is characterized by a very high degree of inequality (comparable by and large to that observed in personal wealth) and … provide estimates for the overall magnitude and the distribution of inherited wealth. Our results indicate that the period … that this has increased over time. However, the inequality increasing effect from the greater inequality in the …

inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through … which health may generate, and possibly sustain, economic inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the …

Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …

the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role …

disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth … and household wealth holdings. We find that overall disabled people have substantially lower household wealth and all … components of wealth (property, financial, pension, physical) than non-disabled people but even these average differences mask …