Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …

households from administrative records of income and wealth. Expenditure surveys tend to suffer from limited sample sizes and …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population … returns does not arise merely from differences in the allocation of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are … heterogeneous even within narrow asset classes. Third, returns are positively correlated with wealth: moving from the 10th to the 90 …

Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing 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 … data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and socioeconomic characteristics. The mechanism by …