| Sumario: | Previous literature has discussed the role of assortative mating and of social class differences in fertility on the inheritance of financial wealth and the degree of wealth inequality. This paper argues that assortative mating and differential fertility play the same sort of role in the intergenerational transmission of human wealth. A path model of the intergenerational transmission of human wealth is constructed from correlations taken from the literature. Estimates are then derived of the extent to which permanent income inequality would be reduced by the elimination of assortative mating, of differential fertility, and of unwanted fertility.
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