Elites are those with vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource. We can
understand this as a position that a social actor occupies, or we can imagine such resources …

Highlights•Laypeople's beliefs about their country's income and wealth distributions are
typically inaccurate.•These misperceptions are caused in part by overreliance on cues from …

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 …

Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in
educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution …

The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income
distribution of any advanced industrialized nation. While other developed countries face …

Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks,
bonds, savings accounts, and other investments--along with continuing racial discrimination …

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer,
creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The …

Purpose Social isolation has negative effects on physical and brain health across the
lifespan. However, the prevalence of social isolation, specifically with regard to …

The study of intergenerational mobility and most population research are governed by a two-
generation (parent-to-offspring) view of intergenerational influence, to the neglect of the …

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' …