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MT- HFCS 2023 report

Antonaroli, Valentina; Castaldo, Valerio Sergio - 2026

The fifth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) offers an updated and comprehensive view of Maltese households' financial position in the post-pandemic period. Based on microdata collected for 2023, this edition introduces two analytical dimensions: in addition to the...

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Unequal lives, unequal benefits : life expectancy and social security rules

Fernández-Blanco, Javier; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2026

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Household Finance and Consumption Survey : methodological report for the 2023 wave

2026

This report summarises the methodologies used in the fifth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in the 20 euro area countries at the time of collection, as well as in the Czech Republic and Hungary. The...

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Household Finance and Consumption Survey : results from the 2023 wave

2026

This report summarises the stylised facts from the 2023 wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in 20 euro area countries, as well as in the Czech Republic and Hungary, for a sample of almost 90,000...

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Lands of opportunity : differences in the geography of wealth and income mobility in the United States

Binder, Ariel; Risch, Max; Voorheis, John - 2026

We provide new county-level estimates of intergenerational mobility, covering multiple economic concepts: total income, labor income, homeownership, housing wealth, and total wealth. This is possible via small-area estimation techniques and linked survey and administrative data covering millions...

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The Luxembourg household finance and consumption survey : results from the fifth wave in 2023

Lindner, Peter; Mathä, Thomas; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2026

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Money talks : how remittances contribute to wealth creation in post-conflict communities

Sritharan, Narayani; Jothishankar, Kritika - 2025

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Does wealth decrease victimization in property crime? : evidence from Thailand

Teng, Yuzhe - 2025

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Who gives and receives substantial inter vivos financial transfers in Britain?

Boileau, Bee; Sturrock, David - 2025

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Wealth, inheritance, and concentration : Italy and its regions from the unification to the Great War

Gabbuti, Giacomo; Morelli, Salvatore - 2025

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Within-school wealth inequality and learning achievement : evidence from PISA

Sempé, Lucas Néstor; Esposito, Lucio - 2025

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Does education improve financial outcomes? : evidence from stock market and retirement accounts in Türkiye

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Ersan, Yasar - 2025

We examine the causal effect of education on financial outcomes related to stock markets and retirement savings, leveraging a major compulsory school reform and a unique data set covering the universe of investors in Türkiye. The estimates show no effects on participation rates, portfolio...

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Is Kenya's gender wealth gap narrowing? : new insights from probate records

Simson, Rebecca - 2025

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The gender (tax) gap in parental transfers : evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data

Tisch, Daria; Schechtl, Manuel - 2025

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Wealth, gender and sexual orientation : evidence from siblings

Dujeancourt, Erwan; Boschini, Anne; Nordén, Anna - 2025

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A cohabitation wealth premium for women and men : considering the regulatory framework and normative acceptance in France and Germany

Kapelle, Nicole; Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lersch, Philipp M.; … - 2025

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How do childhood environments contribute to intergenerational economic mobility? : evidence from 25 years of panel data in Egypt

Krafft, Caroline; Asʿad, Rāǧī; Li, Ruotong - 2025

How do childhood environments contribute to intergenerational economic mobility? This paper explores the relative roles of family background (parents' wages, income, and wealth during the early years), and neighbourhoods (including access to services during childhood), in determining...

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Do the rich really save more? : answering an old question using the survey of consumer finances with direct measures of lifetime earnings and an expanded wealth concept

Llanes, Liz; Thompson, Jeffrey P.; Henriques, Alice M. - 2025 - This version: October 2025

The question of whether affluent households save at a higher rate than other parts of the distribution has been asked by economists on numerous occasions since the 1950s. It is standard in this research to define affluent, or "rich," households as those with high lifetime earnings or income to...

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Derivation of the Pareto index in the economic system as a scale-free network and introduction of new parameters to monitor optimal wealth and income distributions

Ingersoll, John G. - 2025

The purpose of this work is twofold: first, it aims to derive an exact analytical form of the Pareto index based on the already developed model of the economy as a scale-free network comprising a given amount of either wealth or income (total number of links, each link representing a non-zero...

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A carbon wealth tax : modelling, empirics, and policy

Neves, Jose Pedro Bastos; Semmler, Willi - 2025

Although economists widely advocate carbon pricing as an effective solution to reduce carbon emissions, this mechanism has had so far limited effects. This paper proposes a new type of tax to help finance (and accelerate) the green transition. A carbon wealth tax (CWT) is proposed to be levied...

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Housing capital and intergenerational mobility in the United States

Binder, Ariel; Risch, Max; Voorheis, John - 2025

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Prudent job search and consumption sensitivity

Rendón, Sílvio - 2025

This paper connects classical preference theory to quantitative job search and savings models. We treat job acceptance as a choice between stochastic income lotteries. By integrating Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion (DARA) and Prudence (DAP), we derive five contributions. First, we prove the...

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Bilbiie, Florin; Galaasen, Sigurd Mølster; Gürkaynak, … - 2025

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Bilbiie, Florin; Galaasen, Sigurd Mølster; Gürkaynak, … - 2025

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The ethnic wealth divide in the UK : mapping disparities across time, age and immigrant generations

Karagiannaki, Eleni - 2025

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Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024

This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is...

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Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024

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Does digitalization alleviate rural clean energy poverty?

Ying Chen; Chen, Ziqi - 2024

This research investigates the impact of digital village development on clean energy poverty (CEP) in rural areas within the context of energy and digitalization transition in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Utilizing the Index of Digital Rural County (IDRC) and China Family Panel Studies...

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The geography of wealth: shocks, mobility, and precautionary savings

Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Greaney, Brian - 2024

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Good policy or good luck? : why inflation fell without a recession

Ferguson, Thomas; Storm, Servaas - 2024

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Good policy or good luck? : why inflation fell without a recession

Ferguson, Thomas; Storm, Servaas - 2024

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Wealth and class analysis : exploitation, closure and exclusion

Waitkus, Nora; Savage, Michael; Toft, Maren - 2024

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Tax principles, policy feedback and self-interest : cross-national experimental evidence on wealth tax preferences

Schechtl, Manuel; Tisch, Daria - 2024

Rising wealth inequality and squeezed public budgets has brought wealth tax back into policy discussions. A net wealth tax might help to boost state revenue and reduce wealth inequality. Yet little is known about citizens’ attitudes towards the design of a net wealth tax (i.e. the tax unit,...

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Micro and macro data on household wealth, income and expenditure : comparing the spanish survey of household finances (EFF) to other statistical sources

Bover, Olympia; Crespo, Laura; García-Uribe, Sandra; … - 2024

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The impact of bequest taxation on wealth inequality : theory and evidence

Neumann, Berenice Anne; Scheuer, Niklas - 2024

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...

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Mortgage relief and household saving : evidence from a natural experiment in Iceland using administrative data

Sigurður Páll Ólafsson; Arnaldur Smári Stefánsson; … - 2024

We take advantage of a unique experiment that took place in Iceland in 2015. Following the collapse of the country's banking system in 2008, the authorities decided on a program of mortgage relief that in effect lowered the principal of mortgages overnight. What sets our experiment apart from...

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Does uncertainty matter for household consumption? : a mean and a two tails approach

Manou, Konstantina; Papapetrou, Evangelia - 2025

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Does uncertainty matter for household consumption? : a mean and a two tails approach

Manou, Konstantina; Papapetrou, Evangelia - 2024

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Family structure and bequest inequalities between black and white households in the United States, 1989-2022

Hexel, Ole; Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego; Zagheni, Emilio - 2024

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Income, wealth, and environmental inequality in the United States

Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - 2024

This paper explores the relationships between air pollution, income, wealth, and race by combining administrative data from U.S. tax returns between 1979–2016, various measures of air pollution, and sociodemographic information from linked survey and administrative data. In the first year of...

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Income, wealth and environmental inequality in the United States

Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - 2024

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Trying too hard or not hard enough : how effort shapes status

Warren, Nathan B.; Warren, Caleb - 2024

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Why do Europeans save? : micro-evidence from the household finance and consumption survey

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - 2024

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Why do Europeans save? : micro-evidence from the household finance and consumption survey

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - 2024

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Do income and capital influence household solar panel investment? : a meta-regression

Best, Rohan; Marrone, Mauricio; Linnenluecke, Martina - 2024

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Owning towards death : the asset condition as existential conundrum

Davies, William - 2024

Moral and pragmatist sociology has studied capitalism as a set of institutions that require justification, which has historically been offered through forms of rewarding and meaningful work, anchoring the human life course in a narrative of individual and collective progress. However, emerging...

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How deep are the roots of Swedish egalitarianism? : a multidimensional approach

Ericsson, Johan; Molinder, Jakob - 2024

When did Sweden become equal? This question has far-reaching implications for our understanding of Swedish history, as well as for theories about inequality, institutions, and politics more broadly. In this article, we present the first multidimensional comparative analysis of the development of...

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A flying start : the long-run effects of inter vivos transfers

Colmsjö, Elin - 2024

This study demonstrates how inter vivos transfers alter the life trajectories of young adults by (i) directly raising wealth levels and (ii) indirectly supporting wealth accumulation by impacting interest rates, borrowing, entrepreneurship, and spending. A unique Danish policy setting allows me...

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A flying start: The long-run effects of inter vivos transfers

Colmsjö, Elin - 2024

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Varieties of wealth : toward a comparative sociology of wealth inequality

Beckert, Jens - 2024

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Does the inheritance and gift tax reduce wealth inequality? : it depends

López Laborda, Julio - 2024

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The racial wealth gap in South Africa and the United States

Chelwa, Grieve; Maboshe, Mashekwa; Hamilton, Darrick - 2024

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The cross-border household finance and consumption survey : results from the fourth wave in 2021

Mathä, Thomas; Montes-Viñas, Ana; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2024

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How is wealth distributed across British households? Reassessing the valuation of pensions

Delestre, Isaac; O'Brien, Laurence - 2026

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Is it over now? (giver's version) : financial giving, economic shocks, and resilience to depression in older Europeans

Cohen Tanugi-Carresse, Arielle - 2026

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Wealth drawdowns or borrowing? : how parents fund financial support for their children's first home

Andersen, Henrik Yde; Gaarskær, Cecilie Walsted; … - 2026

Intergenerational assistance in housing markets is well documented, yet little is known about how parents finance support for their children's first home purchases. Using population-wide Danish administrative data linking first-time buyers and their parents from 2000 to 2023, we identify...

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Alterssicherung : eine Frage von Einkommen und Vermögen : Stellungnahme zum Fragenkatalog der Alterssicherungskommission der Bundesregierung

Pimpertz, Jochen - 2026 - Stand: März 2026

Die Alterssicherungskommission der Bundesregierung soll einerseits eine Kennziffer für das Gesamtversorgungsniveau aus gesetzlicher Rente, betrieblicher und geförderter Privatvorsorge entwickeln. Andererseits soll es darum gehen, wie der Lebensstandardsicherung im Alter gesichert werden kann....

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