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This paper examines the degree to which the elderly reduce homeownership as they age, and the factors which influence this process. We find that average levels of homeownership decline significantly with age, even when cohort effects are taken into consideration, and that the amount of housing...
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The objective of the work reported in this paper is to find if the consumption data from the six waves of the Retirement History Survey are consistent with the life cycle hypothesis of consumption and to test the importance of a bequest motive for saving. The 12 data items which are used cover...
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th equal to $94,310. These spending measures represent a substantial fraction of liquid wealth for decedents. Total out …-of-pocket expenditures are strongly positively related to wealth and weakly related to income. We find evidence for a mechanism by which … wealth could plausibly buy health: large expenditures on home modifications, helpers, home health care, and higher …
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In a model with housing collateral, a decrease in house prices reduces the collateral value of housing, increases household exposure to idiosyncratic risk, and increases the conditional market price of risk. This collateral mechanism can quantitatively replicate the conditional and the...
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In a model with housing collateral, the ratio of housing wealth to human wealth shifts the conditional distribution of … that a decrease in the ratio of housing wealth to human wealth predicts higher returns on stocks. Conditional on this ratio …
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Both textbook economics and common sense teach us that the value of household wealth should be related to consumer … suggest. An important first step in understanding the consumption-wealth linkage is determining how closely the two variables … relative importance of permanent and transitory innovations in the variation of consumer spending and wealth and find that …
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post-war dynamics of aggregate consumer spending, labor earnings, and household wealth. The first shock accounts for … effect of this shock has persistently boosted stock market wealth and persistently lowered labor earnings. We call this a … characterized by a negative transitory wealth (positive risk aversion) shock, predominantly affecting stock market wealth. By …
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This paper considers two central problems in our statistical frameworks which impair the ability to use wealth to … assess economic sustainability or the impacts of economic downturns. Some increases in wealth may reflect increased economic … capacity of the economy. Another major problem in our wealth accounts is the "missing capital" required to explain the marked …
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The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who hold little or no liquid wealth (cash, checking, and savings accounts …
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how fluctuations in individual crypto wealth affect household consumption, equity investment, and local real estate … wealth causes house price appreciation--counties with higher crypto wealth see higher growth in home values following high …
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