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

wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial assets, and the relative risk in their chosen asset portfolios that have … especially so at older ages. This research examines the association of cognitive skills with wealth, wealth growth, and wealth …

(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income …

levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the … wealth gap between mixed and native-born couples is not statistically significant, immigrant-only couples have approximately … $150,000 less wealth on average than native-born couples. Relative to equally wealthy native-born couples, immigrant …

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal … that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly … more of Mexican Americans? wealth disadvantage is attributable to the fact that these families have more young children and …