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on inequality, but this effect has waned over time due to the growing importance of assets in lifetime wealth portfolios … wealth portfolios. We estimate the distribution of human wealth using nonparametric identification results that allow for … processes or utility. Accounting for the value of human capital delivers a different view of inequality: (i) in 2016 the top 10 …
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A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … increases in wealth inequality have passed through to consumption. Repeating this exercise in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing …
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on inequality, but this effect has waned over time due to the growing importance of assets in lifetime wealth portfolios … wealth portfolios. We estimate the distribution of human wealth using nonparametric identification results that allow for … processes or utility. Accounting for the value of human capital delivers a different view of inequality: (i) in 2016 the top 10 …
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A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … increases in wealth inequality have passed through to consumption. Repeating this exercise in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing …
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consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of productive resources; Income distribution; and Economic security. Since … value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
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-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a …
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We document relevant racial differences in the degree consumption insurance against shocks: Blacks appear to be less …
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We assess the evolution of consumption inequality in Canada over the years 1997 to 2009. We correct the imputation of … find that household-level consumption inequality measured by the Gini coefficient has increased from 0.251 to 0.275 over … inequality measurement, and find that the increase in measured consumption inequality is robust to this correction. …
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relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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