light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

We study the effect of bequests and their taxation on wealth inequality. We allow for random death and birth in a … continuous-time, dynastic framework. Individuals behave optimally and accumulate wealth over their lifetime. Bequests above a tax … exemption threshold are taxed according to a fixed rate. We derive a stochastic differential equation modeling dynastic wealth …

This paper investigates preferences for limiting top incomes and wealth through a surveybased experiment with a large … participants (around 30%) support limits irrespective of inequality (strong limitarians). Preferences for wealth caps are more … efficiency, are less inclined to attribute top incomes and wealth to merit, are more supportive of government redistribution, and …

wealth distribution in the long run. Combining tax and archival data, household surveys, historical national accounts, and … rich lists, we document that the top 1% wealth share has fallen by half, from close to 50% in 1895 to 26% today. Nearly all … their mark on the German wealth distribution. Households at the top made substantial capital gains from rising business …

We use Norwegian tax data and a life-cycle model with housing to study how wealth transmits across generations through … that housing outcomes when young are important determinants of midlife wealth. This holds also when using plausibly … parental wealth explain 12% of intergenerational wealth persistence, making housing equally important as the combined impact of …

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies … oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40 …