measured using the Health Utilities Index and income and education provide the measure of SES. First, the findings show that ….163) at ages 80+. Second, the data reveal that health inequalities between SES groups (Concentration coefficients for income …

; that is, the relationship between SES (measured by years of education and annual household income) and health (measured by …

comparisons to earlier wealth surveys from 1977 and 1984. I find cross-sectional evidence for asset decumulation at older ages … when annuitized assets like pension wealth are included in the analysis. I also find that the portfolio share of financial …

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal … that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly …, income differentials are important, but do not play the primary role in explaining the gap in median net worth. As much or …

Beyond income, wealth is an important measure of economic well-being, because while income captures the current state … of inequality, wealth has the potential for examining accumulated and historically structured inequality. This paper … documents the extent of gender inequality in wealth for Canadian women and men aged 45 and older. The analysis uses data from …

This paper estimates the effect of labour income uncertainty on financial wealth and portfolio allocation using two … data sources. Wealth and portfolio choice information is obtained from the master files of the new Canadian Survey of … Financial Security 1999 (SFS). Labour income risk proxies are constructed for each specified industry group (consistent with the …

Beyond income, wealth is an important measure of economic well-being, because while income captures the current state … of inequality, wealth has the potential for examining accumulated and historically structured inequality. This paper … documents the extent of gender inequality in wealth for Canadian women and men aged 45 and older. The analysis uses data from …

SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U ….S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times … that of foreign-born singles. Further, there is a great deal of diversity in wealth within the immigrant population …