Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal … retirement age approaches. Labour market mechanisms are key, with schooling increasing job mobility, reducing housing equity …

mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no … associations between the abilities and mortality. However, for low income earners and individuals without a college education …

income, and the probable mechanism is health affecting the labour supply of the individual. In addition the study report that …

analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in … individual drug utilization. Whereas the education gradient for men is quantitative in its orientation (education affects number … of drugs used), the gradient for women is both quantitative and qualitative (education affects mean cost of drugs). For …

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …

In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map … Statistics data for each occupation and area. Finally, we develop a model capable of projecting the trajectory of wages across …

Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … of the most dramatic changes in the retirement income system over the last two decades has been a decline in traditional … Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans and a sharp rise in Defined Contribution (DC) pensions. Using data from the Federal Reserve …

retirement income is judged in relation to some absolute standard (for example, the poverty threshold) and preretirement income … expected retirement income grew robustly from 1989 to 2001 (by 38 percent in real terms) and the share with expected retirement … income less than twice the poverty line fell by 5 percentage points. The percentage-point decline was even greater for …