The intergenerational transfer of assets helps create and maintain wealth inequality over
time, and cohort differences in these wealth transfers provide unique insights into the …

Recent evidence indicates that inheritances and other intergenerational wealth transfers
have only a limited effect on wealth inequality and the intergenerational transmission of …

BACKGROUND Transfers in the form of bequests have important implications for the
intergenerational transmission of inequality. Demographic change has relevant …

Whether and how much intergenerational transfers contribute to wealth inequality is still
subject to debate. This column analyses household survey data on inheritance and gifts …

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 are often regarded as a societal" evil," enabling great fortunes to be passed
from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth …

This paper uses population register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate
the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce …

2. Inheritances, gifts and the distribution of wealth Page 24 2. Inheritances, gifts and the
distribution of wealth Rowena Crawford Institute for Fiscal Studies In wave 6, the ELSA survey …

Wealth ownership is highly concentrated in the US and this inequality may be reproduced in
subsequent generations through wealth transfers. Yet we do not know how households …

Our paper sheds light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality
by examining whether or not individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their …