investigating how the net worth, wealth portfolio and the wealth distribution, which are related to well-being, have evolved in the …

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as …-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are highlighted in terms of wealth holdings, among the low-income population …, along with changes in wealth polarization, racial differences in wealth holdings, and the dynamics of portfolio choices. The …

of other contributions to well-being, including those of household wealth. Wealth is important in providing security and …

Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … Board's Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that retirement wealth (the sum of pension and Social Security wealth) had a … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased …

percent replacement rates, respectively. Moreover, retirement wealth is very unevenly distributed. Whites and married couples … had substantially larger wealth accumulations than their respective counterparts. …