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 …

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 … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …

The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing … the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined … afterwards. By international standards, Italy does not have a high level of wealth inequality (contrary to the evidence available …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic …

distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption … health and wealth are jointly determined under income and health risk that are related to disease outbreak risk. We calibrate … in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic …

This paper investigates the impact of heterogeneous wealth on credit allocation from an egalitarian opportunity and an … efficiency point of view. Under asymmetric information on both wealth and the responsibility variable there is no trade …-off between equality and efficiency, actually wealth inequality delivers both inequality of opportunity and inefficiency. Due to …

that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak. But this may simply reflect the difficulty …