Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth.

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This pioneering volume uses modern statistical and simulation techniques to explain the process of wealth transmission and the persistent problem of the unequal distribution of wealth. These papers reflect a shift from the traditional cross-sectional measurement to an intertemporal focus by attempti...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Smith, James D.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Collection:Studies in income and wealth.
Sujets:
Wealth > United States.
Inheritance and succession > United States.
Richesse > États-Unis.
Successions et héritages > États-Unis.
Inheritance and succession
Wealth
United States
wealth, generations, transmission, distribution, poverty, acquisition, saving, mating, marriage, ownership, spouses, assets, divorce, gifts, bequests, inheritance, aging, nonfiction, economics, succession, testators, family size, race, class, mobility, public policy, government, retirement, labor, economy, mathematical models, capitalism, capital.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth; Contents; Introduction; 1. Long-Term Trends in American Wealth Inequality; 2. The Wealth of Testators and Its Distribution: Butler County, Ohio, 1803-65; 3. The Perpetuation of Wealth: A Simulation Model; 4. The Importance of Material Inheritance: The Financial Link between Generations; 5. The Bequest Process and the Causes of Inequality in the Distribution of Wealth; 6. Estimates of the 1969 Sue Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. from a Synthetic Data Base.

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