Households hold vastly heterogenous amounts of wealth when they reach retirement, and differences in lifetime earnings … wealth dispersion at retirement, in the context of a rich quantitative model. Modeling voluntary bequests, and realistically … calibrating them, not only generates more wealth dispersion at retirement and reduces the correlation between retirement wealth …

Households hold vastly heterogenous amounts of wealth when they reach retirement, and differences in lifetime earnings … wealth dispersion at retirement, in the context of a rich quantitative model. Modeling voluntary bequests, and realistically … calibrating them, not only generates more wealth dispersion at retirement and reduces the correlation between retirement wealth …

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 …