wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999 … increase in their pension wealth. From a political point of view, this suggests that the increase in individual pension wealth …

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of … and, thus, should be accounted for in peoples’ wealth portfolios. Using novel data from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP …), we show the incidence, relevance, and distribution of individual pension wealth, net worth, and augmented wealth (the sum …