Wealth/Assets

In this research spotlight, Salvatore Morelli and his colleagues analyze ways of studying wealth concentration, as well as new findings on the dramatic shifts in the U.K.

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog, Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University discusses why reducing inequality may be essential for growth.

In this blog post, Arthur B. Kennickell, the former director of the SCF, uses the latest data to step beyond the usual summary statistics to chart the changes in wealth and income, revealing important distributional shifts.

P. Acciari and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 26. Revised 2021.

G. Alfani. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 23. 2020.

In this lecture, Branko Milanovic presents how the classical writers François Quesnay and Adam Smith discussed inequality and how their discussion may be interpreted in the terms of interpersonal inequality.

B. Nolan, J. Palomino, P. Van Kerm, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no 21. 2020.

In this blog post, Brian Nolan and his coauthors discuss their research on patterns of wealth transfers across generations and the role this plays in wealth accumulation.

B. Nolan, J. Palomino, P. Van Kerm, and S. Morelli. Institute for New Economic Thinking/Oxford. 2020

In this interview, Nora Lustig discusses the importance of accurately assessing the very top of the income and wealth distributions when analyzing inequality.