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 …

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … (HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …

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 …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …

wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial assets, and the relative risk in their chosen asset portfolios that have …, and the level of economic resources of the household. These may be cognitively demanding decisions at any age but … especially so at older ages. This research examines the association of cognitive skills with wealth, wealth growth, and wealth …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …

household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States – the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity … wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one's job have a statistically significant …