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This paper documents the share of investable wealth that middle-class U.S. investors hold in the stock market over their working lives. This share rises modestly early in life and falls significantly as people approach retirement. Prior to 2000, the average investor held less of their investable...
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We use novel monthly security-level data on U.S. household portfolio holdings, flows, and returns to analyze asset … wealth groups partly offset each other, the aggregate household sector plays a limited role to absorb financial fluctuations …. To understand the contrasting trading behavior across households, we show that a household's flows to U.S. equities are …
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participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half …
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This paper investigates the efficiency of household investment decisions in a unique dataset containing the …
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The rapid growth of assets in self-directed tax-deferred retirement accounts has generated a new set of financial decisions for many households. In addition to deciding which assets to hold, households with substantial assets in both taxable and tax-deferred accounts must decide where to hold...
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This paper studies household financial choices: why are these decisions dependent on the education level of the … household? A life cycle model is constructed to understand a rich set of facts about decisions of households with different …
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" speech in July 2012 with household data from the ECB's Household Finance and Consumption Survey, we find that portfolio …
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We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: non- participation, low ….S. household survey, we measure ambiguity aversion using custom- designed questions based on Ellsberg urns. As theory predicts …
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While financial knowledge has been linked to improved financial behavior, there is little consensus on the value of financial education, in part because rigorous evaluation of various programs has yielded mixed results. However, given the heterogeneity of financial education programs in the...
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The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of racial exploitation in post-Emancipation history. It was also most Black Americans' first experience of banking. Can...
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