This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences … how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link between … educational inequality and social mobility. We interpret this evidence from the perspective of economic models of skill …

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 …

While cross-sectional increases in inequality are a cause for concern, the study of the intergenerational transmission … work has highlighted the relationship, if not causal then correlational, between inequality and measures of social mobility … inequality during one's childhood are correlated with lower intergenerational income mobility between the child and his or her …

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention … has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality … between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not only is persistence in horizontal inequality due to low …