extreme wealth inequality in society. … inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows …

among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …

among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …

particularly prominent argument contends that childhood wealth accounts for black–white (BW) disadvantages in life chances. This … article analyzes how much childhood wealth and childhood income mediate BW disadvantages in adult life chances with Panel … with 18 outcomes, and measure income and wealth more rigorously. We find large BW disadvantages in most outcomes. Childhood …

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 …