Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist … the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household …-country differences in asset and debt levels, except for housing wealth, which displays large unexplained differences for both the under …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income …

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using … comprehensive analysis of richness. -- Richness ; affluence ; poverty ; tax reform ; flat tax …

and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect. …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than …Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social … ways. Previous studies that have sought to incorporate assets into poverty measures suggest that (1) poverty estimates …

the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare …There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on … of financial need among the elderly - a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty - also …

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income … intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based measure of wealth and longitudinal data from the Young Lives project (2002 … after controlling for a comprehensive set of household characteristics that impact their ability to accumulate wealth. We …