the share of spending on necessity goods relative to luxury goods in a large national supermarket chain in Israel for the … regulated products, is down by 4.8%, but the cut in spending on luxury goods is even more pronounced at 8%, and the difference … between these two types of goods is up significantly by 3.2%. Within the luxury category, we observe a 10% or more decline in …

, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality. …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … extreme wealth inequality in society. …

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …