In this paper, we present updated measures of racial disparities in wealth using the most recent data from the Survey … of Consumer Finances (SCF), augmented by household-level estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension wealth developed by … Sabelhaus and Volz (2020). Including this important asset, we find that racial wealth disparities are smaller than the numbers …

Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely …, Italy presented a historically high value of total private wealth but had relatively small relevance in total bequests flows … in proportion to national income. Then, we present novel estimates of wealth concentration between 1863 and 1914 …

This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on … developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate … among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … instrument. The exclusion restriction is that conditional on the total amount of inheritance, inheriting a home affects the … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average …