This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … strongly related to educational attainment. These "initial conditions" for retirement can have a lingering effect on subsequent …

This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … strongly related to educational attainment. These "initial conditions" for retirement can have a lingering effect on subsequent …

Many analysts have considered whether households approaching retirement age have accumulated enough assets to be well … prepared for retirement. In this paper, we shift from studying household finances at the start of the retirement period, an ex … ante measure of retirement preparation, to studying the asset holdings of households in their last years of life. The …