%0 Report
        %A Stuhler, Jan
        %T Multigenerational Inequality
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18146
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18146
        %X 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.
        %K assortative mating
%K multigenerational inequality
%K distant kins