Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children’s wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

wealth levels and (ii) indirectly supporting wealth accumulation by impacting interest rates, borrowing, entrepreneurship …, and spending. A unique Danish policy setting allows me to identify intergenerational wealth transfers channeled through …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data …. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational … achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the independent role of wealth in contributing to long-term inequalities in …