Using microdata from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), this study
examines the role of inheritance, income and welfare state policies in explaining differences …

Modern Britain is characterised by marked inequalities in the distribution of wealth, which
continue to fuel controversy and arouse strong, if adverse, feelings. Originally published in …

This paper provides historical series on the evolution of the share of inherited wealth in
aggregate private wealth in Europe (France, the UK, Germany, Sweden) and the USA over …

This paper considers changes in the distribution of the wealth of US families over the 1989-
2004 period using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Real net worth grew …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of
inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register‐linked Swedish …

Previous work has had difficulty generating household saving behaviour that makes the
distribution of wealth much more concentrated than that of labour earnings, and that makes …

We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of
changes in the Hindu Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in …

This paper develops, calibrates, and simulates a dynamic 88-period OLG model to study the
intergenerational transmission of US wealth inequality via bequests. The model features …

The objective of this paper is to study when and how much labor and capital income of heirs
respond to inheritances. We estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in …