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 … with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …

We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries and observe that income … volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This pattern even holds for borrowers with higher-income … profiles if volatility in income is high enough. From this result we can draw the following conclusions: i) mortgage protection …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income … less consistently predicted to have less equity than whites. We find that race gaps in homeownership, typically attributed …

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 … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth carried out by the Bank of Italy. Our results confirm that in Italy both labor … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of …

homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …

homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent … deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … U.S. Blacks experienced significantly lower increase in homeownership than the whites but highest exit from …