Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-70

  Charles, Kerwin Kofi ^a   Hurst, Erik ^b   Killewald, Alexandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Marriage; Multigenerational; Social mobility; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872948650     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0144-6     Document Type: Article

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