Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Human aging is marked by a steady rise in the risk of dying with age–a process demographers call senescence. Over the past century, life expectancy...

How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married an...

Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in

Ze zijn deze week weer samen in Davos, veel rijken der aarde. Maar waar wonen miljardairs eigenlijk? En waar komen ze oorspronkelijk vandaan?

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Research on millionaire migration reveals that social and professional ties matter far more than marginal tax rates.

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An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...

Der Soziologe Fabian Pfeffer hat sich für die Wiedereinführung einer Vermögenssteuer in Deutschland ausgesprochen.

Massachusetts’ 4% surtax on household income greater than $1 million, approved by voters in 2022, is on track to bring in nearly $3 billion in this fiscal year.

Elite cohesion in the American administrative state, 1898–1998