aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in …. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic …

We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that … judicial accountability is positively, related to both types of inequality. The estimates are particularly pronounced in …

Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only …

, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous …This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

We estimate the causal effect of wealth on stock market participation using administrative data on Swedish lottery … intuitive ways. Standard lifecycle models predict wealth effects far too large to match our causal estimates under common …

both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of … similar, but in Sweden government wealth grew more important, not least through its relatively large public pension system …This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary prizes in a large sample of …

deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This … the wealth shock resulting from the tax reform leads people to seek care for symptoms of disease, which result in that …