We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US …, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is …

find that there has been no erosion of the gender gap in the tendency to sort into occupations with the highest share of …

officials in sub-national governments. We first develop a model of politics with different types of politicians and show that … -- following a tax decentralization reform increasing local fiscal autonomy -- politicians with high administrative skills are … elected in rich jurisdictions while politicians with high political skills are elected in poor ones. As a result, voter …

We study how elected politicians who hold strong bargaining power due to their pivotal position in the legislative …