types of inequality/discrimination, e.g. based on gender, race or sexual orientation. An inquiry into the mechanisms of the …

on wealth and lifetime earnings we evaluate measures of retirement preparedness. We estimate heterogeneous discount … have access only to a risk-free asset compared to when we account for the fact that much of their wealth is stored in …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal … wealth with a reform expanding access to lower secondary school in Denmark in the 1950s, finding that schooling increases … pension annuity claims but reduces the non-pension wealth of men in their 50's. These effects grow stronger as normal …

findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data …

the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …

In this paper, we present updated measures of racial disparities in wealth using the most recent data from the Survey … of Consumer Finances (SCF), augmented by household-level estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension wealth developed by … Sabelhaus and Volz (2020). Including this important asset, we find that racial wealth disparities are smaller than the numbers …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and non-college households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is …

human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent-income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call …