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 …

effect of the coronavirus crisis on household income and retirement wealth, households’ expectations about the recovery, and … the impact of the shock on individuals’ economic choices. Wealth shocks are large across the population, but more … pronounced for middle-age households and those higher in the wealth and income distributions. This contrasts with income shocks …

large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in the perception of wealth, such that balance sheet composition matters: for … implies greater perceived wealth. The predominance of this bias is explained by low cognitive sophistication and great …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing … marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth components. The marginal …

How much and over what horizon do households adjust their consumption in response to stock market wealth shocks? We …

, 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 …

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 …