findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data …

This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting … styles. My results suggest that parental beliefs are an important determinant of parental decision-making, but cannot explain …

To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the …. Students with low socio-economic status perceive pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to be lower. Beliefs explain 48% of the …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality. …