wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth …

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those … with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the …, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world’s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly …

International and national investors are often exposed to real wealth risks, stemming from volatile asset prices and …, price level and futures price and hence real wealth is stochastic. For a risk averse investor, optimal consumption and …

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …

(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …