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 …

Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper updates and extends previous research on the racial wealth … gap in the United States. We explore several hypotheses that help explain differential wealth accumulation by racial … to the literature. We find that observable factors account for the entire wealth gap between white and Hispanic families …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … instrument. The exclusion restriction is that conditional on the total amount of inheritance, inheriting a home affects the … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average …

Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014 … historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution … of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and …

differences, but inheritance is also widely recognised as playing a major role, especially at the upper end of the wealth range. A …This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that … on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This confirms the well known fact that wealth is more unequally …

In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data … from the "Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth," a panel survey of households conducted every two years by the … Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired elderly in Italy are decumulating their wealth (dissaving) but that …