a wealth transfer and these accounted for about a quarter of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … in the SCF reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among …

"We present a mechanism to analytically generate a double Pareto distribution of wealth in a continuous time OLG model …. We disentangle, roughly, the contribution of inheritance, age and stochastic rates of capital return to wealth inequality …, in particular to the Gini coefficient. We investigate the role of the fiscal and redistributive policies for wealth …