This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility,
and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an …

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about
intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the …

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both among the scholarly community
and in the general public, and many insist that equality is an important social goal. However …

Two dominant theories within family research foresee a long‐term decline in marriage,
fertility, and partner stability. They also assume that this “less‐family” scenario will be …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and
Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences …

It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but
corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their
parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we …