Recent estimates of US top wealth shares obtained by capitalizing income tax returns (Saez and Zucman, 2020; Smith … Exchange Commission data at the shareholder firm level show that billionaires' equity wealth is underestimated by a factor of 2 … undervalued by a factor of 1.2 and top-owned partnerships by up to 2.2. After incorporating these results, the top 0.01% wealth …

We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate …

of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The …

By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer … benefits among covered workers. All classes of wealth holders enjoyed increased wealth from employer provided retirement plans …

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We assemble new data that links … that twenty percent of total pass-through business wealth accrues to those with losses. We combine this new data on fixed … income and pass-through business returns with refined estimates of C-corporation equity, housing, and pension wealth to …

well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … extreme wealth inequality in society …

Using panel data for a sample of households in Utah from 1850 to 1900 we find income and wealth age profiles that are … a relationship between age-income and age-wealth profiles that is consistent with a life-cycle model of consumption … given a concave and peaked age-income profile: households accumulate and then begin to draw down wealth holdings, the age-wealth …

benefits on private savings. The Retirement History Survey combines survey evidence on the wealth of couples in their early … extended life cycle model as a theory of asset accumulation and indicate a substantial substitution of social security wealth … for private wealth accumulation …

earnings, the traditional measure, and in human wealth, the measure suggested by recent literature. A second objective is to … wealth inequality as well as the overall contribution of these variables combined. A unique feature of this study is the … estimation of earnings and human wealth and their distribution for a group of men for which several age-earnings data points are …

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth … U.S. over the last two decades. Contrary to our expectations, we find that in both countries wealth volatility reaches …