Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational … transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do …

We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and … Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0 ….3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their 60s is lower than for those currently aged in their 30s and early 40s …

The rapid widening of intergenerational wealth inequalities has led to sharp differences in living standards in Great … Britain. Understanding which components of wealth are driving such inequalities is important for improving wealth and social … mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …

The paper argues that much of the farm-nonfarm labor mobility in rural Bangladesh is in nature an intergenerational … occupational choice-induced change rather than a sectoral shift within the current generation. Bangladesh has a large share of …