instruments. The evidence suggests that the typical elderly family does not wish to reduce housing wealth to increase current …We have described the relationship between family attributes and moving, and between moving and change in housing … wealth. Moving is often associated with retirement and with precipitating shocks like the death of a spouse or by other …

of Income Dynamics. While a cross-section time-series regression implies that housing wealth does affect saving, a fixed …

This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing … choices. We develop a data set that links wealth profiles of youth with constant- quality house prices and tenure choice. A … panel data set is compiled for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990. We construct wealth profiles for each …

This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … price have two offsetting effects on wealth. First, the greater the local constant-quality price of housing, the greater the … wealth needed to meet the lender imposed down payment constraint if housing demand is price inelastic. However, increased …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are …

onset of an acute illness has a negative effect on family wealth levels and that the onset of chronic illnesses only makes … 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 …

We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …

Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …

homeownership but the long-run growth in levels has been similar for both groups, and therefore the racial gap measured in …