On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820–2050

By Thomas Piketty. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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The Role of Bequests in Shaping Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Danish Wealth Records (2016, neutral): “Recent work of Piketty (2011, 2014), brought back to the forefront the question of the role of bequests in shaping inequality.”
Inequality, Leverage and Crises: The Case of Endogenous Default (2013, neutral): “[45] Piketty, T.”
A simpler theory of optimal capital taxation (2017, positive): “10In practice, wealth does not go to infinity because of shocks to the rate of return or to preferences (Piketty (2011, 2014)).”
Income inequality in France, 1900–2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA) (2018, methodology): “…in order to estimate separately the distribution of fiscal income among tax units and among equal-split individuals (the initial estimates by Piketty (2001, 2003) focused on tax units and did not attempt to correct for different tax unit sizes).24 In the Online Appendix we provide a…”
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700–2010 (2014, methodology): “According to the one-good capital accumulation model and the Harrod-DomarSolow formula β = s/g, the two key forces driving wealth-income ratios are the saving rate s and the income growth rate g.”
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations (2018, positive): “6 A number of studies have examined the aggregate macroeconomic importance of inherited wealth (Piketty, 2011; Ohlsson et al., 2014; Piketty et al., 2014; Piketty and Zucman, 2015), whereas other studies investigate how inheritances affect the cross-sectional wealth distribution (Wolff and…”
Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260–1850 (2019, neutral): “…developments of real annual labour incomes and per capita GDP speaks to the debate about capitalism and the long-term evolution in inequality (e.g. Piketty, 2011; 2014), because a central component of this debate relates to the evolution of factor shares and labour’s share of total income in…”
Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (2014, background): “…collected in France show that the bys ratio has changed tremendously over the past two centuries, from about 20–25% of national income in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, down to less than 5% at mid-twentieth century, back to about 15% in the early twenty-first century (Piketty, 2011).”
Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century* (2019, neutral): “First, a longstanding literature debates the relative importance of inherited wealth versus self-made wealth (Kotlikoff and Summers 1981; Modigliani 1986; Piketty 2011; Piketty, Postel-Vinay, and Rosenthal 2014).”
The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles (2014, neutral): “∗The views expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.”
Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers (2018, background): “…decreasing or relatively low levels of wealth inequality throughout the Western world, wealth inequality may now be on the rise.1 A small but growing body of research has also shown that the importance of inherited wealth has increased recently (Piketty 2011; Ohlsson, Roine and Waldenström 2014).”
Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (1800-2014) (2017, positive): “Here it is interesting to recall that the aggregate wealth-national income ratio fell hugely over the 1914-1945 period - from about 700% to less than 200% - and gradually recovered in the decades following World War II (see Piketty and Zucman (2014) for a detailed analysis and decomposition between ”
Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century (2018, background): “Moreover, the fact that, until 1975, the values are considerably above those found by Piketty (2011) in the case of France suggests that the allowance should not be increased (see Appendix Figure C4).”
Tackling income inequality The role of taxes and transfers (2013, neutral): “Data for France and Ireland refer to mid-2000s.”
WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, neutral): “…et al. 2010), China (He and Huang 2012, Li and Zhao 2008, Ward 2013), Egypt (Alvaredo and Piketty 2014), France (Frémeaux and Piketty 2013; Piketty 2003, 2007a, 2011; Piketty et al. 2006), Germany (Fuchs-Schündeln et al. 2009); India (Banerjee and Piketty 2004, 2005; Subramanian and…”
Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances (2012, background): “2.1 EMPIRICAL L ITERATURE The empirical literature on the distribution of income and wealth focuses on describing long-run changes in the data [Piketty and Saez(2003), Piketty(2010), Atkinson et al.(2011)].”