Empirical evidence suggests that parents who have themselves inherited from their own parents are more likely to leave an estate to their children even after controlling for income, wealth and education. This implies an indirect reciprocal behavior between three generations by transmitting the...

In order to shed light on the patterns of economic development characterized by sustained growth and persistent wealth inequality, we develop an agent-based model in which generations overlap and parents leave bequests to offspring. The model shows how neighborhood effects influence the long-run...