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 …

housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the …Housing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries. The special characteristics of … consumption of housing as a component of personal wealth. The impacts of rates of home ownership, credit market characteristics …

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

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 …

set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of rural nonfarm activities by … inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …

by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India …. The study used household survey data to assess the consumer attitudes, level of satisfaction, and affordability of …

The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … health care in the country. No studies, however, have directly examined this discrimination in relation to household behavior … that while the gap in the probability of boys' and girls' hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …