Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by
families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions …

This survey discusses how capital should be taxed in advanced economies. We review the
theoretical optimal tax literature, survey empirical studies on the distribution of capital and …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using 12
years of population data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number …

Inequality in family wealth is high, yet we know little about how much and how wealth
inequality is maintained across generations. We argue that a long-term perspective …

Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic
governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of
kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more …

Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth
brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) …

Genetic inheritance is not the only way parents' genes may affect children. It is also possible
that parents' genes are associated with investments into children's development. We …