Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: An Empirical Study of Wealth Mobility (France 1800–1835)
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This paper uses historical data from the ?3 000 familles? survey, covering individuals in the Lower Loire département in the 19th and early 20th century, to measure the intergenerational transmission of wealth inequality over the period 1800-1938. Our results reveal a large degree of intergenerational immobility: those whose father had twice the average level of wealth themselves die with a wealth level 1.45 times the average for their generation.
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