We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twenty years of population … percentile. Second, heterogeneity in returns does not arise merely from differences in the allocation of wealth between safe and … risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are positively correlated with wealth …

By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer … benefits among covered workers. All classes of wealth holders enjoyed increased wealth from employer provided retirement plans …

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We assemble new data that links … that twenty percent of total pass-through business wealth accrues to those with losses. We combine this new data on fixed … income and pass-through business returns with refined estimates of C-corporation equity, housing, and pension wealth to …

well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … extreme wealth inequality in society …