Recession varied with the household's initial wealth. Those who were in the highest wealth deciles typically had a larger share …This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the effects of the Great Recession on the wealth … wealth in 2012 remained 3.6 percent below its 2006 value. This is a modest decline considering the fall in asset values …

distribution of retirement wealth and the expected utility of wealth at retirement. It considers both rules that allocate a … assets as the worker ages. The analysis simulates retirement wealth using asset returns that are drawn from the historical … return distribution. The results suggest that the distribution of retirement wealth associated with typical lifecycle …

benefits on private savings. The Retirement History Survey combines survey evidence on the wealth of couples in their early … extended life cycle model as a theory of asset accumulation and indicate a substantial substitution of social security wealth … for private wealth accumulation …

We estimate the level and distribution of global household wealth. The levels of assets and debts for 39 countries are … lacking direct evidence. Data on the pattern of household distribution of wealth are assembled for 20 countries, which … measured using household balance sheet and survey data centred on the year 2000. The determinants of mean financial assets, non …

median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of … in median net worth and the rise in overall wealth inequality over these years are largely traceable to the high leverage … of middle class families and the high share of homes in their portfolio. Mean and median wealth rebounded from 2010 to …

I use the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to analyze wealth trends from 1983 to 2013. Asset prices plunged between … 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013. Median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010 and … wealth inequality was up sharply. These two movements can be traced to the high leverage of middle class families, the high …

Median household wealth shot up by 21.2 percent in real terms between 2016 and 2019, as asset prices continued to … rebound. However, 2007 still remains the watershed year, and median wealth was down 20.4 percent relative to 2007, though mean … wealth more than fully recovered. There was a modest remission in wealth inequality, with the share of the top one percent …