, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality …

Current trends in the distribution of wealth trigger a social divide and threaten democracy. I propose to counter this … requires two novel institutions: a socially responsible Sovereign Wealth Fund and a Federal Shareholder. This paper offers an …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … reductions in the net holdings of financial and other real wealth of the treated households …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that … retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … inequality under nuclear family arrangements. Pooling mortality risks with equal treatment of all children may fend off, or even …

Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical … mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often differ among individuals although these differences are imperfectly … wealth. We show that BCA does not systematically favor identified over statistical lives and suggest some political factors …