If your grandparents were wealthy, will you be?
This column uses a Swedish four-generational wealth dataset to study the role of family background for people’s wealth status and how much of this that is due to material inheritance. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Daniel Waldenström
Professor of Economics, ppsala University; Research fellow CEPR, IZA and IFN, visiting Paris School of Economics 2015-2016
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