🚨New working paper 🚨 – Saving Rate Heterogeneity across the Wealth Distribution in the United States Using PSID data (2001–2021), I provide mobility-consistent estimates of saving rates across the U.S. wealth distribution.

New from me: An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals. Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5

🔔 I’m on the market! 🔔 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐉𝐌𝐏 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: - 📌 Since the 1980s the financial sector in the U.S. has grown dramatically before stabilizing in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-10.

Ever wondered whether capital or labor income makes individuals move up the income ladder? So did my fantastic co-authors @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @robertoiacono.org and I! Short answer: It's mostly LABOR income! 1/2

In a new paper, Coleman & Lukina re-examine assortative matching literature using new rank correlation measures. Contrary to previous results, they find that assortative matching actually rose from the 1960s through the 1980s to 2013, rather than flattening out. Read their research→ bit.ly/4mqXDDH

Hoe zijn de vermogens in België verdeeld? Niet-technische (poging tot toch 😉) blogpost voor de Universitaire Stichting Armoedebestrijding. Link: blog.uantwerpen.be/armoede-soci...

🚨 New working paper: “Belgian wealth inequality, 1935-2022” (NBB WP 477). ▸ Top 1 % owns ≈22 % of net wealth - same as bottom 75 % ▸ Inequality strongly declined last century, stabilised in recent years PDF 👉 www.nbb.be/en/media/17695 #EconSky #Belgium #WealthInequality

🚨 New working paper 🚨 I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). #EconSky #WealthMobility

🚨 New working paper 🚨 I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). #EconSky #WealthMobility

New paper: benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality. Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added. go.bsky.app/5daYr6v