reasons, rural- to-urban migrants are less likely to own housing units in cities and as a result accumulate less wealth. Our … rural hukou owns 310 thousand yuan less housing wealth and 213 thousand yuan less total wealth than comparable household …

associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity. Greater wealth, as measured by the real value of the Prize, does not …

-called wealth hypothesis. On the other hand, Attanasio, Blow, Hamilton, and Leicester (2009) find that house prices have the same …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment … and illiquid parts, but also to decompose each of them into assets and liabilities. The decomposition of wealth into these … four components is key to understanding how wealth affects job finding rates. In particular, we show that liquid assets …