We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and … Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0 ….3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their 60s is lower than for those currently aged in their 30s and early 40s …

mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …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 …

credit led to less intergenerational mobility and greater inequality. Two offsetting forces underlie this result: (1) greater …

coupled with amortizing mortgages, is a key driver of household wealth building and inequality, and that the amortization-wealth … contributions. We provide the first empirical evidence on the causal effects of mortgage amortization on wealth accumulation. Ex … consumption/labor supply, there would be no effect on wealth. We use individual administrative data and plausibly exogenous …

large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in the perception of wealth, such that balance sheet composition matters: for … implies greater perceived wealth. The predominance of this bias is explained by low cognitive sophistication and great …

large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in the perception of wealth, such that balance sheet composition matters: for … implies greater perceived wealth. The predominance of this bias is explained by low cognitive sophistication and great …