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mitigate wealth inequality … inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined … Inflows; this is true across the distribution of Total Inflows, as well as at all levels of net wealth.Gifts and inheritances …
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We study the effect of state-level estate taxes on the geographical location of the Forbes 400 richest Americans and its implications for tax policy. We use a change in federal tax law to identify the tax sensitivity of the ultra-wealthy's locational choices. Before 2001, some states had an...
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Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …
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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 …
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Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...
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wealth planned for retirement. The responses showed that their knowledge and awareness of retirement planning was limited. We …
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In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
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The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This...
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We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level for Germany. We exploit differences in the incidence of Covid infections or short-time work at the...
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probability of different proxies for housing downsizing (residential mobility, differences in home value, home value to wealth … other mental disorders and 6.5pp for ADL), home value to wealth ratio and the new dwelling's size (0.6 and 1.2 fewer rooms …
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