light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper examines … widening of wealth disparities. However, such a tendency is found to be stronger among less better-off households in both … countries, and this may help alleviate the disequalizing effect of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth, at …

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper uses data for … children in both Japan and the United States, which in turn is likely to contribute to the persistence or widening of wealth … help alleviate the disequalizing effect of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth, at least to some …

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, we use data for Japan and … children in both Japan and the United States, which in turn is likely to contribute to the persistence or widening of wealth … help alleviate the disequalizing effect of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth, at least to some …

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper examines … widening of wealth disparities. However, such a tendency is found to be stronger among less better-off households in both … countries, and this may help alleviate the disequalizing effect of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth, at …

liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the change in the composition of household gross and net wealth of these …. The paper then discusses global and detailed compared trends of household wealth between countries ... …

This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique … bequest motives in explaining the lower than expected rates of wealth decumulation of the retired elderly. Taken together, our … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving …