experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at 110% APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. Average effects on a rich …

estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at 110% APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. Average effects on a rich …

lending practice. We use randomized interest rates, offered across 80 regions by Mexico's largest microlender, to identify a …

spells. In this paper I focus on focus on one form of resources, own wealth holdings. I find that the median worker has … tremendous heterogeneity in wealth holdings; almost one-third of workers can't even replace 10% of their income loss. Most … strikingly, ex-ante wealth holdings decline precipitously with realized unemployment durations, both absolutely and (especially …

By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of … total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer … benefits among covered workers. All classes of wealth holders enjoyed increased wealth from employer provided retirement plans …

who reside in Western countries, and those who inherited substantial wealth, are wealthier than other billionaires. The …

This paper uses administrative tax data to estimate top wealth in the United States. We assemble new data that links … that twenty percent of total pass-through business wealth accrues to those with losses. We combine this new data on fixed … income and pass-through business returns with refined estimates of C-corporation equity, housing, and pension wealth to …

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … jobs. We also show people in the top decile of parental wealth are seven times as likely to work in creative professions … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

We use a sufficient statistic approach to quantify the general equilibrium effects of population aging on wealth … countries, we measure the compositional effect of aging: how a changing age distribution affects wealth-to-GDP, holding the age … wealth-to- GDP ratios, lower asset returns, and widen global imbalances through the twenty-first century. These conclusions …