While prior research has widely acknowledged the consequences of specific family transitions (e.g., parental death, parenthood, grandparenthood) for individual wealth holdings, the interplay of multiple family transitions and positions occurring at different life stages and in various orderings has received little attention. This is despite the fact that these transitions and positions most likely jointly shape wealth accumulation, both in the shorter and longer run. We apply (1) sequence analysis to identify typical family life course clusters defined by the timing of the death of the parent generation, the timing of the transition into parenthood, and grandparenthood and (2) regression analysis to describe how the accumulation of wealth between ages 40 and 64 differs by family life course cluster. Using Norwegian register data of individuals born in 1953 (N = 47,945), we identified six clusters of family trajectories ranging from childless individuals to individuals who were sandwiched between their parents, children, and grandchildren because of relatively early (grand)parenthood and late parental death. Individuals experiencing patterns with a later transition into (grand)parenthood occupied stable and high wealth positions over time. Individuals without children exhibited a steady increase in their wealth position. Additionally, experiencing parental death later in life was associated with increasing wealth, whereas early parental death was not. These results held net of gender and education. Pronounced and even increasing wealth differences over the life course seem to be associated with the interplay of multiple family transitions.

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挪威的代际家庭生活课程和财富积累


虽然先前的研究已经广泛承认特定家庭转变（例如，父母去世、父母身份、祖父母身份）对个人财富持有的影响，但在不同的人生阶段和不同的顺序发生的多个家庭转变和位置的相互作用却很少受到关注。尽管这些转变和头寸很可能在短期和长期内共同塑造财富积累。我们应用 （1） 序列分析来识别典型的家庭生活历程集群，由父母一代的死亡时间、过渡到父母身份的时间和祖父母身份定义，以及 （2） 回归分析来描述 40 至 64 岁之间的财富积累如何因家庭生活历程集群而异。使用 1953 年出生的个体的挪威登记数据 （N = 47,945），我们确定了六组家庭轨迹，从无子女的个体到由于相对较早的（祖）父母身份和较晚的父母死亡而被夹在父母、子女和孙子女之间的个体。随着时间的推移，经历后来过渡到（祖）父母身份的个体占据了稳定和高财富的地位。没有孩子的人的财富状况稳步增长。此外，晚年经历父母死亡与财富增加有关，而父母过早死亡则无关。这些结果不包括性别和教育。在生命历程中，明显甚至不断扩大的财富差异似乎与多个家庭转变的相互作用有关。