median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of … in median net worth and the rise in overall wealth inequality over these years are largely traceable to the high leverage … of middle class families and the high share of homes in their portfolio. Mean and median wealth rebounded from 2010 to …

I use the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to analyze wealth trends from 1983 to 2013. Asset prices plunged between … 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013. Median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010 and … wealth inequality was up sharply. These two movements can be traced to the high leverage of middle class families, the high …

total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer …By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … provided pension benefits per household by 150 percent in real terms. Changes in retiree health benefits, which have only about …

compare pre-tax and post-tax wealth. The empirical analysis covers 1983-2016 based on the Survey of Consumer Finances for … conventional net worth, NW, and augmented wealth, AW, the sum of NW, pension wealth PW, and Social Security wealth SSW. Like TDAs … BV of wealth, including death benefits. While TDAs are still subject to income tax at withdrawal, other assets are valued …

We estimate the level and distribution of global household wealth. The levels of assets and debts for 39 countries are … lacking direct evidence. Data on the pattern of household distribution of wealth are assembled for 20 countries, which … measured using household balance sheet and survey data centred on the year 2000. The determinants of mean financial assets, non …

This study estimates the magnitude of pension wealth and compares pension wealth to net worth for households in the … 1983 Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF). The SCF is the first data set to provide detailed information on both household … likely to be more accurate than the pension data used in previous studies. Pension wealth was estimated under two sets of …

Effects of the Great Recession varied with the household's initial wealth. Those who were in the highest wealth deciles … those falling in lower wealth deciles, they have yet to regain all the wealth they lost during the recession …Much of the decline in wealth over the 2006 to 2010 period was cushioned by wealth originating from Social Security and …

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We assemble new data that links … that twenty percent of total pass-through business wealth accrues to those with losses. We combine this new data on fixed … income and pass-through business returns with refined estimates of C-corporation equity, housing, and pension wealth to …

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth … U.S. over the last two decades. Contrary to our expectations, we find that in both countries wealth volatility reaches …

Wealth varies considerably across the population and changes significantly over the lifecycle. In this paper, we trace … out trajectories of wealth across several key life milestones, including marriage, homeownership, childbirth, divorce … the milestone. We find evidence of significant long-run increases in wealth associated with homeownership and retirement …