Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Sefton, James; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1998
Answering the question of how much wealth inequality arises from inheritance inequality requires data that are unavailable and potentially uncollectable. The alternative approach taken here (from Blinder [1974, 1976] and Davies [1982]) is to simulate the transmission of inequality via bequests.