Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or family data on income or … across different people, and about the extent of economies of scale. The number of elderly in poverty, or the number of … children in poverty, is sensitive to these assumptions and to differences in living arrangements across age groups. We explore …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …

annuitize a fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing …. Concerns about later-life income, spending flexibility, and counterparty risk are the most important self-reported motives that …

wealth levels. This pattern is consistent with those who choose monthly distributions being more likely to use their …

considered: total wealth; an annualized measure of AIME; the wealth value of pensions; and a measure of average indexed lifetime …