Inheritance and the distribution of wealth

Cowell, Frank

(1998) Inheritance and the distribution of wealth. [Working paper]

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The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and population parameters such as the distribution of families by size, marriage patterns, tax mechanisms and savings behaviour within a simple model of inheritance.

Item Type	Working paper
Keywords	Inheritance,wealth,Pareto distribution
Departments	Economics STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Date Deposited	27 Apr 2007
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2124