wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … is often used as an argument for policies that foster homeownership. However, the causal link between homeownership and … wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and …

wealth. To capture the importance of land as an input factor for housing production and for the evolution of wealth in a … housing wealth after Word War II remarkably accurately and accounts for the close connection of house prices to land prices in … the data. It suggests a considerable further increase in housing wealth, relative to income, that is associated with a …

Rising wealth inequality has spurred an increased interest in understanding how and why wealth is correlated across … generations. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in housing wealth driven by home price changes in different areas to isolate … the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation …

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

error differs substantially across countries. Based on a comparison of forecasting practices we show that these differences … lower standard deviation of the forecast error. -- revenue forecasting ; international comparison ; OECD countries …