Many families have little or no savings to access on a 'rainy day'. We examine the types of families with low savings …

This paper is a critique of the literature on transfer wealth accumulation in Japan during the postwar period. The … emphasis is on selected works in two areas that are closely related: the accumulation of wealth by the elderly in extended … families in Japan, and the distribution of wealth within Japanese cohorts by household composition. The central point of …

This report gives a new and up-to-date picture of the giving and receiving of significant intergenerational wealth … transfers during life, summarising the findings of two research papers. New data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) allow … us to build a comprehensive picture of the flow of wealth transfers made during life. The WAS asks about the giving and …

This report describes patterns of financial help from family received by first-time buyers. We quantify the value of … backgrounds, and shed light on their role in explaining inequalities in homeownership and wealth. …

English couple households born in the 1940s. Here, 'optimal' wealth holdings are those that allow households to enjoy the same … calculate this level of wealth, and compare that with how much wealth households are observed to hold. We find that the majority … of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …