with several problems in measuring wealth. While many respondents report owning assets and liabilities, they often do not … calculate household wealth for the whole sample. We examine household wealth holdings by considering several measures of … families own. Overall, there is much heterogeneity in wealth holdings not only across but also within demographic groups. This …

Population Surveys from 1979 to 2003 we assess how much of the changes in full-year non-employment can be explained by …

urban population from 1981-2004. We find that the inflation experiences of the different groups are very highly correlated … with and similar in magnitude to the inflation experiences of the overall urban population. Over the sample period …, cumulative inflation for the groups ranged from 224% to 242% as compared to inflation for the overall population of 230%. The …

Without policy reforms, the aging of the U.S. population is likely to increase the burden of the currently unfunded … population projections made by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to evaluate the macroeconomic and welfare implications of …

rule in the 18th and 19th centuries and most U.S. states do today. We study an economy with a growing population of …