[HTML][HTML] How does intergenerational wealth transmission affect wealth concentration?

L Feiveson, J Sabelhaus - 2018 - federalreserve.gov
Wealth concentration is high and rising in the US, reigniting an old debate within economics
about the role that intergenerational wealth transmission plays in understanding savings …

Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach

P Salas-Rojo, JG Rodríguez - The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022 - Springer
This paper explores the relationship between received inheritances and the distribution of
wealth (financial, non-financial and total) in four developed countries: the United States …

The (un) importance of inheritance

SE Black, PJ Devereux, F Landaud, KG Salvanes - 2022 - nber.org
Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much
attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for …

Secular changes in wealth inequality and inheritance

J Laitner - The Economic Journal, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Data suggest that the distribution of wealth among households in the USA and UK has
become more equal over the last century, though, at least for the USA, the pattern may have …

Inheritance and saving

D Joulfaian - 2006 - nber.org
This paper explores the effects of inheritances on the saving of recipients. Information on
inheritances and heirs is obtained from estate tax records of decedents which are linked to …

[引用][C] Inheritance and inequality within the family: Equal division among unequals, or do the poor get more

N Tomes - Modelling the accumulation and …, 1988 - Oxford University Press London

Recent trends in the size and the distribution of inherited wealth in the UK

E Karagiannaki - Fiscal Studies, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we use HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estate statistics and micro data
from four UK household surveys to examine changes in the size, the composition and the …

Why is wealth inequality rising?

JP Smith - The causes and consequences of increasing …, 2001 - books.google.com
This paper summarizes the principal facts about wealth inequality and how it has been
changing during the last fifteen years. A very sharp rise in the inequality in household wealth …

[HTML][HTML] Wealth inequality, family background, and estate taxation

M De Nardi, F Yang - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper generates two main contributions. First, it provides a new theory of wealth
inequality that merges two empirically relevant forces generating inequality: bequest motives …

The family, inheritance, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality

N Tomes - Journal of Political Economy, 1981 - journals.uchicago.edu
Unequal inheritance of material wealth is commonly considered a major cause of inequality
in consumption. However, theoretical models of the intergenerational transmission of …