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Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany
Lersch, Philipp M.; Grabka, Markus M.; Rüß, Kilian; … - In: Journal of European Social Policy 31 (2021) 5, pp. 565-579
, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … from single-parent families using recentred influence function regression and decomposition analysis. We replicate earlier …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …
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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919007
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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2019
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891951
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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924134
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Wealth creators or inheritors? : unpacking the gender wealth gap from bottom to top and young to old
Bartels, Charlotte; Sierminska, Eva; Schröder, Carsten - 2024
There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that...
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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016
Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509132
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
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 and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814565
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The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm - 2016
Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987251
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Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - 2020
We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390086