estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at 110% APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. Average effects on a rich …

estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at 110% APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. Average effects on a rich …

lending practice. We use randomized interest rates, offered across 80 regions by Mexico's largest microlender, to identify a …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

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 …