The extent of and changes in inter-generational mobility of wealth are central to understanding dynamics of wealth … inequality but hard to measure. Using estate tax returns data, we observe that the share of women among the very wealthy (top 0 ….01%) in the United States peaked in the late 1960s, reaching almost 50%. Three decades on, women's share had declined to one …

altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the … critically on laws governing property division, I show that these results are not robust to alternative specifications and … participation, regardless of the pre-existing laws regarding property division …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry … marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models, including transition matrices, OLS and TSLS … spouses whose parents have wealth similar to that of their own parents; and are very unlikely to marry persons from very …

married women's property from seizure in the case of insolvency, amending the common law default which vested a wife …'s property in her husband and thus allowed it to be seized for the repayment of his debts. Importantly, these laws only applied … wealth came from the husband (wife), the law led to an increase (decrease) in investment. This is consistent with a simple …

Property rights are the most fundamental institution in any society. They determine who has decision-making authority … over assets and who bears the costs and benefits of those decisions. They assign ownership, wealth, political influence … historians have long recognized the importance of secure property rights for economic outcomes. Other political economy …

armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and … violently expropriating the same villages. The findings suggest that the security of property rights over stealing, hence the …

power between secular and religious elites: secular authorities acquired enormous amounts of wealth from monasteries closed …, especially the building of palaces and administrative buildings, which reflected the increased wealth and power of secular lords …