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 …

risk for wealth deterioration may allow for interventions that can slow or reverse the widening wealth gap and ultimately … differences (wealth, age, race, sex, and marital status) affect the downward trajectory of certain groups and the upward …

In a recent representative survey, German citizens are asked whether or not inherited wealth beyond a certain amount … this fundamental opposition against the taxation of inherited wealth. We find monetary self-interest and redistributive …-term care. Being at the heart of intra-familial exchange relations, women are more likely to oppose wealth transfer taxation …

This paper uses SOEP data to study the distributional effect of intergenerational transfers on the wealth distribution … aggregate bequest flows. At the same time, there is an ongoing debate on the distributional implications of such wealth shocks … of households. The model allows for dynamic adjustment and variations in the savings behavior over the wealth …