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 …

This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing … choices. We develop a data set that links wealth profiles of youth with constant- quality house prices and tenure choice. A … panel data set is compiled for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990. We construct wealth profiles for each …

of Income Dynamics. While a cross-section time-series regression implies that housing wealth does affect saving, a fixed …

instruments. The evidence suggests that the typical elderly family does not wish to reduce housing wealth to increase current …We have described the relationship between family attributes and moving, and between moving and change in housing … wealth. Moving is often associated with retirement and with precipitating shocks like the death of a spouse or by other …

Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … our main findings, we find that less than half of the retired elderly in Europe are decumulating their wealth and that the … average wealth accumulation rate of the retired elderly in Europe is positive though relatively moderate (6.6% over a 3-year …

homeownership, with a response function that exhibits substantial concavity but also an extremely high upper bound, and larger … there is little effect on total fertility. Our results support a causal pathway behind differences in homeownership and … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

Rising wealth inequality has spurred an increased interest in understanding how and why wealth is correlated across … generations. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in housing wealth driven by home price changes in different areas to isolate … the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are …