The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …

This paper investigates the role of discount rate heterogeneity for wealth inequality. The key idea is to infer the … distribution of preference parameters from the observed age profile of wealth inequality. The contribution of preference … heterogeneity to wealth inequality can then be measured using a quantitative life-cycle model. I find that discount rate …