We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. … until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of …

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development … characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the evolution of the wealth distribution in developed countries is … transition. The data used originates from the taxation of wealth and estates. …

necessarily monotonic. Second, when income inequality is low, an increase in income inequality might induce the poor to identify …

answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and …

We show theoretically that the poor can benefit from price changes induced by higher income inequality. As the number … price of rice and Big Mac hamburgers, we confirm the relationship between inequality and purchasing power of the poor, and …

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the … negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …