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 … reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did …

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. …

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 …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … reductions in the net holdings of financial and other real wealth of the treated households. …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …

Using the 2006 and 2010 Health and Retirement Study, we explore how the recent recession impacted the wealth holding … household asset ownership, asset wealth and household retirement behavior varied with the nativity of the household and its … standing in the wealth distribution prior to the onset of the recession. We find that the so-called Great Recession made a …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys we integrate the big … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For …

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio … partnership) that might explain this wealth gap. We find that all factors contribute to the explanation of the wealth gap within …

wealth by aggregating visible goods and assets using principal component weights. We find that relative deprivation in … visible wealth has a ten percentage point higher explanatory power for reporting a high level of perceived deprivation than …