Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

Why do the children of wealthy parents accumulate more wealth than children from poorer backgrounds? Does parental … wealth have a role in determining young people's earnings, saving choices, returns to wealth and access to homeownership? How … much wealth do parents give directly to their children? What other channels are involved in the persistence of wealth from …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

We present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth correlation for Australia, using HILDA. The rank correlation … varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. Most children in our ….306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …