The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

-material factors. Besides income and wealth, other dimensions of inequality including education, occupational prestige, parental … health and the education system, which also moderates the relevance of wealth on subjective social status. …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate. To fill this gap …, we put a quarter of a century of rising inequality in Sweden in a new perspective by quantifying the effect of changing … household composition, age structure, industry structure, educational attainment and immigration on inequality. The influence of …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …