Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international … do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to …

in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to map wealth and poverty in previously unmeasured areas …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … measured in the Current Population Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of … southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In … exhibit multiple stable dynamic wealth equilibria …

paper builds on a growing literature that seeks to better document how and why wealth and SES are related. Specifically, we …-differences identification strategy. We estimate a parameter for acute illnesses (which should have a causal effect on wave-to-wave wealth … should be less causally related to wealth differences year-to-year). Additionally, we interact these health indicators with …

wealth transfer and these accounted for about a quarter of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of households … could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time of … the SCF reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all …

wealth and investment in health. Financial literacy is also correlated with wealth though it appears to be a weaker predictor …

with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that … exception of Venezuela, significant increases in human capital enable comprehensive wealth to be maintained (and sustainability … per-capita comprehensive wealth …

found in the literature between cognitive ability, and in particular numeracy, and wealth, income constant. We have a number … suggest that causality is more likely to run from pension wealth to pension knowledge, rather than the other way around … forms of wealth. Rather, counting pensions in total wealth, those with more valuable pensions save more for retirement …