Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … 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 …

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

kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … lacks buffer savings. This is further emphasized for different subpopulations. Women, couples, and older individuals holds … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …

(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …

This paper presents the multiple imputation model for the imputation of the missing values of the Austrian Household … Survey on Housing Wealth 2008. It is based on Bayesian inference and on the fully conditional specification approach. Both …