Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

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 …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

Invariably, across a cross-section of countries and time periods, wealth distributions are
skewed to the right displaying thick upper tails, that is, large and slowly declining top wealth …

Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging
from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of “regular” Americans into these …

In this research we examine estimates of American social class mobility—the ability to move
up or down in education and income status. Across studies, overestimates of class mobility …

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 …

The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to
explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family …