Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth

The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and population parameters such as the distribution of families by size, marriage patterns, tax mechanisms and savings behaviour within a simple model of inheritance.

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Year of publication:	1998-05
Authors:	Cowell, Frank A
Institutions:	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
Subject:	Inheritance \| wealth \| Pareto distribution

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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