Narrow search
Showing 31 - 40 of 458,125
Cover Image
Parental wealth and the black-white mobility gap in the U.S.
Fox, Liana E. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 706-723
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626730
Cover Image
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2019
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891951
Cover Image
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919007
Cover Image
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924134
Cover Image
Wealth, Officeholding, and Elite Ideology in Antebellum Georgia
Poulos, Jason - 2015
-post officeholding, and on votes in favor of slavery legislation and state banking policy for participants who served in the state … legislature. I find that lottery wealth significantly reduces legislators' support for slavery legislation, and find no evidence … treatment effect on support for slavery legislation varies systematically according legislators' pretreatment wealth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142964
Cover Image
(Re)discovering the lost middle : intergenerational inheritances and economic inequality in urban and regional research
MacLeavy, Julie; Manley, David - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 10, pp. 1435-1446
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099512
Cover Image
Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy : what can we learn from molecular genetics?
Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009
This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920255
Cover Image
Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714448
Cover Image
Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698232
Cover Image
Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
We analyze the effect of some circumstances, i.e. exogenously determined individual characteristics, over individual income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme of Equality of Opportunity, this paper identifies as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703371