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 …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic …

As the importance of capital is resurging in rich countries, the dynamics of wealth inequality are being increasingly … affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …'s aristocratic wealth has experienced more negative shocks since WWII, social stratification is perceived as less acute, and half of …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

The rapid widening of intergenerational wealth inequalities has led to sharp differences in living standards in Great … Britain. Understanding which components of wealth are driving such inequalities is important for improving wealth and social … mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …