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Generational Wealth Accounts: Did Public and Private Inter-Generational Transfers Offset Each Other over the Financial Crisis?

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  • David McCarthy
  • James Sefton
  • Ronald Lee
  • Joze Sambt

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We develop Generational Wealth Accounts (GWA): the first set of balance sheets, by generations, to include all human capital, tangible wealth, financial wealth, and transfer wealth, and the uses to which these are put, and employ them to quantify inter-generational transfers and the sustainability of consumption. Consumption plans in the UK public sector worsened over the financial crisis and are unsustainable; private sector plans improved, and are now almost balanced. Increases in private capital transfers to the young offset the effect of increased public debt. House price increases shifted resources from young to old but had little effect on sustainability.

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  • David McCarthy & James Sefton & Ronald Lee & Joze Sambt, 2022. "Generational Wealth Accounts: Did Public and Private Inter-Generational Transfers Offset Each Other over the Financial Crisis?," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(647), pages 2412-2437.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:132:y:2022:i:647:p:2412-2437.
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    1. Concepció Patxot, 2023. "The long-term evolution of intergenerational transfers in Spain (1958-2012)," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2023/459, University of Barcelona School of Economics.

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