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 …

We study the importance of the extended family - or the dynasty - for the persistence in human capital inequality … transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …

cohorts born 1960-1982. To study the effects of parental birth order and family size we apply a cousin fixed effects design … family size effects operate through a Markovian process of transmission …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …