drastically after this point. They also apply a new instrument, changes in house prices, for wealth in the entry equation, and … show that instrumented wealth is not a significant determinant of entry. We reinterpret these findings: first, we …

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences … differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the initial wealth difference, blacks cannot afford cars while whites can. Car …

This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark …. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation … between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably lower compared to estimates from earlier research on other …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …