, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality …

ante skill heterogeneity corresponding to being university educated or not. Using the Wealth and Assets Survey for Great … Britain, we find that the university educated group has higher average wealth, higher earnings risk but lower within group … wealth inequality. Using estimates of the earnings processes for each group to calibrate the model, we find wealth inequality …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … reductions in the net holdings of financial and other real wealth of the treated households …

Current trends in the distribution of wealth trigger a social divide and threaten democracy. I propose to counter this … requires two novel institutions: a socially responsible Sovereign Wealth Fund and a Federal Shareholder. This paper offers an …

Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax … back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of …, the wealth tax is often not delivering the expected effects – a large share of the tax burden falls on people with low …

Using detailed tax data from the Swiss canton of Bern, I examine how changes in wealth are related to income risk. I … find that only among elderly individuals high kurtosis of income risk may be positively correlated with wealth accumulation …. Additionally, I document that a substantial share of taxpayers have negative net wealth. While wealth and income are positively …

The recently published Household Finance and Consumption Survey has revealed large differences in wealth inequality … between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership …-country inequality differences. We confirm the major role for homeownership rates in accounting for the wealth inequality differences …

Finances. The household-level data allow us to study the joint distributions of household income and wealth since 1949. We … expose the central importance of portfolio composition and asset prices for wealth dynamics in postwar America. Asset prices … shift the wealth distribution because the composition and leverage of household portfolios differ systematically along the …