We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household … Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the distribution of the different wealth components and, using … inequality decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall wealth inequality. We find that wealth …

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 …

In this paper, I study the role of housing for wealth accumulation and the determination of the equilibrium real … between 1980 and 2018 of almost 4 percentage points (pp), an increase in the wealth-to-income ratio of almost 250 pp and an … increase in the share of housing wealth of almost 8 pp. All of these patterns are broadly in line with the empirical …

dining together with family, is associated with better financial preparedness and greater wealth accumulation across time … their family, increased wealth at a faster rate than others between 1994 and 2004. Moreover, those who exhibited self …. Consistent with other studies, results indicate that wealth accumulation increased with age, income, and educational attainment. …

intergenerational income mobility is low, highincome households can build wealth, both from regular income and from substantial capital …

intergenerational income mobility is low, high-income households can build wealth, both from regular income and from substantial capital …

little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the … previously it was thought to only be 59 percent. The richest percent of the population has around 35 percent of the wealth, not … million euros. These individuals do not only differ from the rest of the population in terms of wealth: They are also more …

We analyse the effect of shocks to housing wealth and income before and after the Great Recession. We combine datasets … containing information on expenditure, income, wealth and debt in a synthetic panel to understand how household indebtedness … affects the response to income and wealth shocks.We find evidence for both a housing wealth effect and income shocks …