The goal of this chapter is to study how, and by how much, household income, wealth, and preference heterogeneity …, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document the patterns of household income, consumption and wealth … inequality before and during the Great Recession. We then investigate how households in different segments of the wealth …

the data and better fits the savings of the households at the bottom 60% of the wealth distribution …

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 …

total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer …By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … provided pension benefits per household by 150 percent in real terms. Changes in retiree health benefits, which have only about …

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 …

compare pre-tax and post-tax wealth. The empirical analysis covers 1983-2016 based on the Survey of Consumer Finances for … conventional net worth, NW, and augmented wealth, AW, the sum of NW, pension wealth PW, and Social Security wealth SSW. Like TDAs … BV of wealth, including death benefits. While TDAs are still subject to income tax at withdrawal, other assets are valued …

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 …

.Most families experienced a decline in wealth between 2007 and 2009, but many families saw only small changes on net, and others saw … substantial increases in their wealth. This pattern of gains and losses typically holds within demographic groups. Changes in … families' wealth over the period appear to reflect changes in asset values (particularly the value of homes, stocks, and …