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Assortative mating and wealth inequality in Great Britain : evidence from the baby boomer and Gen X cohorts

Kanabar, Ricky - 2024

We study partnership sorting by education, the profile of wealth accumulation and the implications for wealth … suggest individuals positively sort by education relative to random matching. By the time highly educated baby boomer couples … is accumulated. We underline the importance of parental education and housing tenure among both sets of parents, in …

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Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania : a 20-year perspective

Maliti, Emmanuel - 2016

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …

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The college wealth divide : education and inequality in America, 1956-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2019

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is considerably larger than the college income premium. Over...

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Origins of Latin American inequality

Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023

, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

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The 0.0003 percent : short-run dynamics of extreme wealth in America

Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2019

This paper analyzes the short-run dynamics and changing sources of wealth among the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest individuals in the United States, using annual data for 12 years spanning before and after the financial crisis of 2008-9. Over the entire time period the growth of wealth was...

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Understanding the Trends in Income, Consumption and Wealth Inequality and How Important are Life-Cycle Effects?

Sommer, Mathias C. - 2009

Rising inequality in income, wealth and consumption has received a good deal of public attention in the past years. At the same time, also macroeconomists are more and more interested in inequality as they have expanded their models to incorporate heterogeneity in the household sector. We supply...

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Household Wealth and its Distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019

Toussaint, Simon; de Vicq de Cumptich, Amaury; Moatsos, … - 2022

We analyze the evolution of aggregate household wealth, its composition, and top wealth shares since the mid-19th century for the Netherlands, a country which played a significant role in economic history. The main forces at play are the size and variation of colonial wealth up until WWII, and...

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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence - they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...

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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396463

Veiled Repression : Mainstream Economics, Capital Theory, and the Distributions of Income and Wealth

Taylor, Lance - 2016

The Cambridge UK vs USA capital theory debates of the 1960s showed that the workhorse mainstream growth model relies on unsustainable assumptions. Its standard interpretation is not consistent with the last four decades of data. Part of an estimated increase in the ratio of personal wealth to...

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