magazine to gain new insights on the structure and dynamics of top wealth in Switzerland. Using this data allows us study the … literature. First, we present a number of new facts on the wealth elite in Switzerland. We show that about 60% of the super … income and wealth. We are the first to evaluate this policy-similar to "non-dom" taxation that exists in other countries like …

's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy … individuals in Germany and includes information on birth district, current residence, individual wealth, gifts and inheritances … and parental background. To identify the effect of economic growth on children's wealth we match the population of heirs …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large …-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One …