This study examines intergenerational income dependency in incomes before and after public cash and in-kind transfers. We use administrative data from Denmark and estimate intergenerational dependency with a rank-rank specification. We predict in-kind transfers from childcare, schooling,...

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...