Add to ORKGThe progeny of small families are likely to inherit more wealth than are children with greater numbers of siblings for two rather simple reasons: parents of smaller families can save more, and they have fewer heirs among which to leave their accumulated wealth. If subpopulations such as Catholics and blacks have larger than average families and Jews tend toward smaller families, this simple demographic fact may have a sub-stantial impact on the distribution of wealth which is unrelated to any overt or subtle discriminatory behavior of the dominant population. How large are the effects of family size likely to be? An adequate data base to answer the question directly does not exist. We therefore created a synthetic population with the charac...