here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … job loss and those who do not reveals generally increasing entry rates through the wealth distribution for both groups … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …

relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks … resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine the effect of wealth on use of home health, unpaid help and nursing home … not affected by the housing wealth changes. The findings suggest that a wealth shock exerts a positive and significant …

This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over ….S. inequality than previously thought, and that both higher returns to top talent and rent-capture are important parts of this story …

on debt composition. Based on a simulation exercise, we find a limited effect of wealth shocks on consumption inequality …This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing …

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

The Carnegie effect (Holtz-Eakin, Joualfaian and Rosen, 1993) refers to the idea that inherited wealth harms recipients …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

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 …