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2025
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IZA Discussion Papers No. 18146
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
A growing literature provides evidence on multigenerational inequality – the extent to which socio-economic advantages persist across three or more generations. This chapter reviews its main findings and implications. Most studies find that inequality is more persistent than a naive iteration of conventional parent-child correlations would suggest. We discuss potential interpretations of this new "fact" related to (i) latent, (ii) non-Markovian or (iii) non-linear transmission processes, empirical strategies to discriminate between them, and the link between multigenerational and assortative associations.
Schlagwörter: 
multigenerational inequality
assortative mating
distant kins
JEL: 
J62
J12
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