Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which has detailed data on wealth and portfolio composition of individuals aged 50+ in 11 European …

International and national investors are often exposed to real wealth risks, stemming from volatile asset prices and …, price level and futures price and hence real wealth is stochastic. For a risk averse investor, optimal consumption and …

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 …

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 …

(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …

utility to differ between households with and without offspring. Our estimates imply a very strong utility of residual wealth …-quarters of aggregate wealth at age 85. More surprisingly, we estimate similar utility of residual wealth for households with and … without offspring. We interpret this as, prima facie, evidence that the utility of residual wealth represents forces beyond an …