from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … group incomes rising. In addition, higher levels of mobility within the middle of the household wealth distribution are … recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data …

distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child …

light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. -- Affluence ; multidimensional measurement ; mobility ; elites …

We calibrate a sequence of four nested models to study the dynamics of wealth accumulation. Individuals maximize a … utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is …