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The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts
Socius, 2022 Although extreme and rising levels of U.S. wealth inequality have generated much public and scientific interest, building intuition on the shape and scale of today’s wealth distribution remains difficult. Prior research tends to conceptualize and measure
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Asher Dvir-Djerassi
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Socioeconomic inequality in smoking: Evidence from a decomposition analysis
Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023 Problem: Vietnam is a lower-middle-income country with a very high prevalence of smoking among men. The poor are more likely to smoke than the better off.
Cuong Viet Nguyen +3 more
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The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 The differentiation of housing assets is an important embodiment of wealth inequality and is also an important dimension of social stratification.
Chunling Li, Yiming Fan
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The Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and the Effect of Income Distribution.
PLoS ONE, 2016 The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is one of the most disturbing social and economic issues of our time. Studying its origin and underlying mechanisms is essential for policy aiming to control and even reverse this trend.
Yonatan Berman +2 more
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Inequality and Mobility Using Income, Consumption, and Wealth for the Same Individuals
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption inequality, and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the life-cycle budget ...
Jonathan Fisher +4 more
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Does r-g cause wealth inequality? The case of the USA
Estudios Económicos, 2023 Piketty claims that the gap between the return to capital and the growth rate (r−g) governs the evolution of wealth inequality. This paper assesses its empirical validity using an IV approach and almost one century of US data.
David Strauss +1 more
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Comptes Rendus. Physique, 2019 We study an agent-based model of evolution of wealth distribution in a macroeconomic system. The evolution is driven by multiplicative stochastic fluctuations governed by the law of proportionate growth and interactions between agents. We are mainly interested in interactions increasing wealth inequality, that is, in a local implementation of the ...
Burda, Zdzislaw +2 more
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Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands, c. 1950-2015. The Paradox of a Northern European Welfare State
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2017 This paper reviews the available evidence on post-war trends in Dutch private wealth inequality using a range of scattered sources. Wealth tax records suggest a substantial decline in inequality to the 1970s and, more tentatively, a gradual rise ...
Bas Van Bavel, Ewout Frankema
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Pension reform and wealth inequality: Theory and evidence [PDF]
, 2023 A growing literature explores reasons for rising wealth inequality, but is mostly silent on the role of pension systems despite their well-understood influence on life-cycle savings.
Bhattacharya, Joydeep +3 more
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Long-Run Wealth Inequality Dataset
, 2022 Dataset of long-run data on wealth inequality drawn from existing sources and compiled into a single country-year ...
Ansell, Ben +2 more
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