We study the causal relation between private wealth and retirement age. We propose two estimation strategies based on … heterogeneity in the disutility of work by using panel data techniques. Next, we exploit information on expected wealth accumulation … in order to identify the unexpected component in wealth accumulation. In line with the literature we find a small but …

a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do … not find wealth mobility to be higher between periods of a person's life than between generations. We find that the …

the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath …

for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income and …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore … monthly panel data, we find that early access to pension wealth improves self-reported overall health …