Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Hurst, Erik - In: Journal of Political Economy 111 (2003) 6, pp. 1155-1182
In this paper, we find that the age-adjusted elasticity of child wealth with respect to parental wealth is 0.37 before the transfer of bequests. Lifetime income and asset ownership jointly explain nearly two-thirds of the wealth elasticity. Education, past parental transfers, and expected future...