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 …

sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth … 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 …

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 …

Research on intergenerational transmission of wealth has pointed to uncertainty -- about the date of one's own death …

rises in wealth in the cross-section of households in the Survey of Consumer Finances. For a given household, the portfolio … share can fall in response to an increase in wealth, even though the model implies decreasing relative risk aversion …

year. At the upper end of the wealth distribution, however, a substantial number of households could make large annuity …