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 …

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 …

This paper presents new homogeneous series on top wealth shares from 1916 to 2000 in the United States using estate tax … return data. Top wealth shares were very high at the beginning of the period but have been hit sharply by the Great … wealth shares recovered in the early 1980s, but they are still much lower in 2000 than in the early decades of the century …

I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the last one hundred … increase in wealth concentration and the other two methods showing at best a small increase. I discuss strengths and weaknesses … incomes and the increased importance of self-made wealth may explain difficulties in implementing each of the methods and …

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 describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … price have two offsetting effects on wealth. First, the greater the local constant-quality price of housing, the greater the … wealth needed to meet the lender imposed down payment constraint if housing demand is price inelastic. However, increased …

Equity in housing is a major component of household wealth in the United States. Steady gains in housing prices over … the last several decades have generated large potential gains in household wealth among homeowners. Mankiw and Weil (1989 …

, increased wealth in the rich country can stunt investment in the poor country …

This study estimates the magnitude of pension wealth and compares pension wealth to net worth for households in the … likely to be more accurate than the pension data used in previous studies. Pension wealth was estimated under two sets of … assumptions. Under the projected earnings approach, mean pension wealth is $98,291, which represents 43 percent of mean net worth …