A key question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in analyzing this … issue, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes … political connections in generating wealth, entrepreneurs who did not use such connections, and those who inherited wealth. We …

countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We use top income shares of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Globalization is …

The dissertation elaborates on topics that are related to (i) intergenerational transfers of wealth and to (ii) how …

This paper describes how household wealth is distributed in 28 OECD countries, based on evidence from the second wave … of the OECD Wealth Distribution Database. A number of general patterns emerge from these data. First, wealth …, on average, 52% of total household wealth, while the 60% least wealthy households own little over 12%. Second, up to a …