Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well‐being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro‐area countries. First, we …

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

The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by …. -- Survey data ; household panel ; family economics ; household finance ; wealth distribution ; portfolio choice …

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. …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

equalized. This article contributes to the discussion by studying the determinants of retirement wealth across a range of … ethnicities, including White, Pasifika and Asian. Differences in retirement wealth between ethnic groups is relatively unexplored … economic factors are the main determinants of retirement wealth. Gender and ethnicity are found to be a strong predictor of …

Data from the Italian Survey of Households Income and Wealth (SHIW) are used to study portfolio allocations change in … response to fluctuations in wealth. In particular I test for the prediction of models with habit formation that changes in … liquid wealth will affect households' risk aversion and risky asset investment. After controlling for the decision to enter …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that look at income and wealth separately when … argue that the higher correlation between income and wealth in the United States contributes to explaining the greater …

This paper studies the racial wealth gap using data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances from 1989 to … 2013. We document that the mean and median wealth (net worth) of white families has consistently been much greater than … regressions and non-parametric decomposition techniques to assess the contribution to the racial wealth gap of life-cycle patterns …