-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on … an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …

The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to … work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality …

modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II …What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long …-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political …

that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak. But this may simply reflect the difficulty …We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …