outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on black-white wealth inequality upon the emancipation of slaves in the US … using historical data.The purpose of wealth has varied from over time. From an economics perspective, wealth is the …, such that they have an incentive to accumulate material wealth for inter-temporal household consumption and social …

effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality. …

) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and … education-related differences in the distribution of the two variables and their effects on wealth: As financial literacy rises … become strongly underconfident with higher education, while men remain overconfident. Regarding wealth accumulation, we show …

In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the … cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure …