The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is …

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 …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …

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 …

human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call …

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 relative … inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …