Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial
increase in saving by the top of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the …

Studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income, consumption,
and wealth inequality, and hence, miss the important synergy amongst the three measures …

We review research on institutions of redistribution operating in high-income countries.
Focusing on the nonelderly, we invoke the concept of the household income package, which …

This article brings together trends in inequalities in income, wealth and, to a limited extent,
consumption in the United Kingdom, with a focus on trends until the onset of the COVID-19 …

We do not need to and should not have to choose amongst income, consumption, or wealth
as the superior measure of well‐being. All three individually and jointly determine well …

Liz (Low parental wealth), Mary (Middle parental wealth), and Howard (High parental
wealth) graduate high school in the late 1980s and establish their own households in the …

We design a series of simulation-based thought experiments to deductively evaluate the
causal effects of various factors on wealth inequality (the distribution) and social mobility …

As wealth inequality increases, the importance of parental financial transfers for
socioeconomic attainment may also rise. Using data from the 2013 Panel Study of Income …

This article investigates the influence of wealth, a frequently neglected aspect of the
economic circumstances of families, on children's development. Using the UK Millennium …

Empirical analysis of US income, saving and wealth dynamics is constrained by a lack of
high-quality and comprehensive household-level panel data. This paper uses a pseudo …