between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …

Much of the macroeconomics literature dealing with wealth distribution has become abstracted from modeling housing … explicitly. This paper investigates the properties of the wealth distribution and the portfolio composition regarding housing and … agents differ in age, income, and wealth and derive utility from housing services. The model is consistent with several facts …

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …

We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We … of death. In an environment in which mortality is high, an individual who saved up for retirement would face a high risk …. As mortality falls, however, it becomes optimal to plan, and save for, retirement. We simulate our model using actual …

I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in …- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …

very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …

for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …