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Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality. [PDF]
J Polit Econ, 2020 We show that genetic endowments linked to educational attainment strongly and robustly predict wealth at retirement. The estimated relationship is not fully explained by flexibly controlling for education and labor income. We therefore investigate a host of additional mechanisms that could account for the gene-wealth gradient, including inheritances ...
Barth D, Papageorge NW, Thom K.
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Wealth inequality and dynamic stability [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2005 In this paper we explore the link between wealth inequality and stability in a two-sector neoclassical growth model with heterogeneous agents. The stability of the steady state depends on the various parameters of the model and in particular on individual preferences.
Ghiglino, Christian
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Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021 This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children experience lower levels of wealth than the rest of the population, seniors in particular.
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus
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The Evolution of Inequality in Latin America in the 21st Century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes? [PDF]
PSL Quarterly Review, 2018 The paper analyses the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. The drivers of changes in inequality and possible underlying causes are examined,
Francesco Bogliacino +1 more
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A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality.
Kwang-Yeong Shin
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WEALTH INEQUALITY: DATA AND MODELS [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005 In the United States wealth is highly concentrated and very unequally distributed: the richest 1% hold one third of the total wealth in the economy. Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models. We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so ...
Marco Cagetti, Mariacristina De Nardi
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Wealth and wealth inequality in adult HIV prevalence
Journal of Global Health Reports, 2021 # Background Studies investigating a correlation between economic status of household (wealth or income) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence have shown relationships ranging from insignificant to strong-positive.
Gary Gaumer +3 more
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Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis.
Siobhán M. Mattison +9 more
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Modeling the Origin and Possible Control of the Wealth Inequality Surge. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is a most disturbing social and economic issue of our time. In order to control, and even reverse that surge, its origin and underlying mechanisms should be revealed.
Yonatan Berman +2 more
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Caste and Wealth Inequality in India [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991-92 and 2002-03. According to our findings, the groups in India that are generally considered disadvantaged (known as Scheduled Castes ...
Ajit Zacharias, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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