. We disentangle, roughly, the contribution of inheritance, age and stochastic rates of capital return to wealth inequality …"We present a mechanism to analytically generate a double Pareto distribution of wealth in a continuous time OLG model …, in particular to the Gini coefficient. We investigate the role of the fiscal and redistributive policies for wealth …

received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … of death. However, there is little evidence of an inheritance "boom". In fact, from 1989 to 2007, the share of households …