There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

(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 … compared to 20 percent of white non-Jewish men were in professional occupations. Among working women in 2000, 51 percent of the … Jewish women and 28 percent of non-Jewish white women were in professional jobs. Differences by gender were smaller than …

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 …

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

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …