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We study how estimators that are used to impute consumption in survey data are inconsistent due to measurement error in … consumption. Previous research suggests instrumenting consumption to overcome this problem. We show that, if additional regressors … are present, then instrumenting consumption may still produce inconsistent estimators due to the likely correlation …
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We examined households’ dynamic patterns of net worth accumulation between 1999 and 2009 and asked whether these patterns related to the financial health of young adults growing up in those households. Two patterns of net worth emerged—the first remained high and stable and the second...
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A central hypothesis of Child Development Accounts (CDA) suggests that savings accounts in childhood lay a foundation for connecting to mainstream banking institutions and diversifying asset portfolios in young adulthood and beyond. While children may have limited savings to invest initially,...
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