wealth. Moving is often associated with retirement and with precipitating shocks like the death of a spouse or by other … changes in marital status. Median housing wealth increases as the elderly age. Even when the elderly move, housing equity is … transaction cost associated with moving is apparently not the cause for the lack of the reduction in housing wealth as the elderly …

from the 1984 and 1989 waves of the PSID to construct changes in real household wealth as a measure of household saving …This paper examines the empirical link between house price appreciation and the savings behavior of home owners during … the 1980s. The analysis uses household asset and debt data for a sample of under age sixty-five home owning households …

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 …

students. Our findings indicate a $10,000 increase in a family's housing wealth in the four years prior to a student becoming … wealth on where students apply, not on whether they are admitted. We also find that short-run increases in home prices lead …

The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who hold little or no liquid wealth (cash, checking, and savings accounts … accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …

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 …

test whether families spend their housing capital gains, I use housing, income, and consumption data from the Panel Study … of Income Dynamics. While a cross-section time-series regression implies that housing wealth does affect saving, a fixed …

is no pure wealth effect on consumption from a change in house prices if this represents a change in fundamental value …. There is a pure wealth effect on consumption from a change in house prices if this reflects a change in the speculative …A fall in house prices due to a change in fundamental value redistributes wealth from those long housing (for whom the …