This paper documents the life-cycle patterns of household portfolios in Canada, and investigates several hypotheses … 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 … the 1999 Canadian Survey of Financial Security, a large nationally representative survey of household wealth in Canada …. Wealth is measured by total net worth as measured by total assets minus debt. We test two general hypotheses to account for …

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 … the 1999 Canadian Survey of Financial Security, a large nationally representative survey of household wealth in Canada …. Wealth is measured by total net worth as measured by total assets minus debt. We test two general hypotheses to account for …

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 …

In many research areas it is desirable to have information on household total expenditure ("consumption"). We draw …

conditions that may have caused disabilities among non-institutionalized older adults by high and low income. Disabled … as many senior women had low income compared with senior men. Mobility and agility disabilities were the most common … reported by low and high income respondents. Among 55-64 year olds, low income respondents were generally less likely to be …

Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …