Abstract WP22-01

Age-specific data is typically visualized as simple line graphs. However, if results from many countries are displayed then researchers end up having too many lines in one figure or having too many separate panels in one figure. These visualizations make it difficult to recognize the real age-specific differences among countries. In order to overcome the problems with visualizing age- and gender-specific data for several countries, we introduce heatmap-like figures to visualize age profiles of National Transfer Accounts (Lee and Mason 2011, United Nations 2013) and National Time Transfer Accounts (Donehower 2019). Our figures are more insightful with regard to real age- and gender-specific differences of intergenerational transfers across the countries than traditionally used figures. We also share publicly available codes for replicating the figures.