Almost $4 trillion dollars of wealth is currently held by families with a life expectancy of less than 10 years. When … that wealth is inherited, will it be retained or spent quickly? Results from the NLSY79, a longitudinal survey covering …

.e., “spousal cohabiters”) have a distinctive financial advantage: they accumulate more wealth over time than individuals who … curve models, the present study attempts to identify the source of spousal cohabiters’ wealth advantage. We find that … marriage is associated with gains for financial and nonfinancial wealth, increasing home equity, and decreasing debt over time …

around 0.25, so that the two preferences are nonetheless far from identical. In addition, the elasticity of children’s wealth … with respect to that of their parents is around 0.22. This correlation is corrected for the influence of age on wealth, and … intergenerational transmission of wealth inequalities, but is far from being the most important factor. Copyright Springer Science …

2). These results indicate that double standards are due to differences in perceived wealth between subjects and in the …

In the United States, racial disparities in wealth are vast, yet their causes are only partially understood. In Being … of young blacks and their parents, particularly parental wealth, wholly explain their wealth disadvantage. Using data … the possibility of variation in the association between wealth and race at different points of the net worth distribution …

country’s wealth and health were confirmed: economic growth does contribute to improving population health, but this effect is … parallel with an increase in its wealth can help to improve health in economically lesser-developed countries, but not in high …

Since the seminal work of the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, the study of wealth and income has been a topic of … systems. This paper investigates the intrinsic fractality of wealth and income. To that end we introduce and characterize … hierarchical fractal approximations of general wealth and income distributions, based on the stitching of these three forms of …

main empirical results show that wealth has a significantly positive effect on reservation wages of both household heads …This paper discusses the interrelations among wealth, reservation wages and search effort. A theoretical job search … model predicts wealth to affect reservation wages positively, and search effort negatively. Subsequently, reduced form …

economy's wealth adjusted for the distribution of wealth. Third, I apply the resulting analysis to the problem of pricing …