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 …

attainment independently predict household wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This relationship is partly explained … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e … wealth disparities not only through education and higher earnings, but also through their impact on the ability to process …

of the October 2018 Fiscal Monitor. The dataset provides a comprehensive picture of public wealth for 38 countries, and a …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

In Denmark, there is a long-standing tradition for estimating the stock of national wealth. However, the most recent … earlier estimates and present new annual time series estimates on the stock of national wealth in Denmark 1845-2013 based on a … our national wealth is broadly in line with the most recent international national-accounts guidelines. As robustness …

production in the future. Discovery is therefore valuable and should be considered as adding to national wealth through increases … resource value chain. Many countries will need to improve management along the entire chain if resource wealth is to benefit …

This paper analyses aggregate household wealth in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US … real assets. In discussing the empirical evidence, the paper summarises some of the recent literature on household wealth …

It is clear that how well off people are, is not only a matter of income, but also a matter of wealth, in both absolute … and relative terms. Using an almost non-observed data approach, Davies et al. (2006) estimated the household wealth and … its distribution for a basket of countries for the year 2000. For this year, the reported wealth Gini for Mexico was 0 …

financial wealth disparities using data from 40 countries over the period 1995-2009. To the author's knowledge, it uses the … the aggregative implications of the Life Cycle Model in that the wealth-to-income ratio decreases with income per capita …