This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth … on parents' wealth, grandparents' wealth is weakly positively associated with grandchild's wealth and the parent …-child correlation is basically unchanged if we control for grandparents' wealth. Bequests and gifts strikingly account for at least 50 …

We present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth correlation for Australia, using HILDA. The rank correlation … varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. Most children in our ….306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …

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 …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from … wealth before effort is exerted. The SOEP allows for a direct mapping from individual circumstances to individual net wealth …