the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

on wealth and lifetime earnings we evaluate measures of retirement preparedness. We estimate heterogeneous discount … have access only to a risk‐free asset compared to when we account for the fact that much of their wealth is stored in …

effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …

.2. Among households age 30 to 70 with a head employed full-time, the ratio of equity assets to total wealth (net worth … plus human wealth) had a mean value of 4.2%.3. The decreases in stock market indexes between 2007 and 2009 had substantial … impacts on the wealth of only a small proportion of working households, with a mean potential loss in wealth due to stock …

We test whether relative risk aversion varies with wealth using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data in the U.S. Our … responds to wealth fluctuations, the income channel and the habit channel. For across households, there are heterogeneous … responses, and to provide strong evidence of relative risk aversion varying with wealth, after correcting two misspecification …