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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 …
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financial behavior. We find that private consumption is excessively sensitive to dividend income. Investors across wealth …
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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 suggestive evidence that the utility of residual wealth represents forces beyond an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014562957
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486954
remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates … contrast, monetary policy has only negligible effects on wealth inequality. …
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in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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This paper investigates the effects of stock market wealth on consumer spending. Traditional macroeconometric models … estimate that a dollar's increase in stock market wealth boosts consumer spending by 3-7 cents per year. With the substantial … 1990s rise in stock prices, the nature and magnitude of this "wealth effect" have been much debated. After describing the …
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In this paper we analyze the impact of the expectations about future labor income on thesaving behavior of German households. We measure expectations on an individual basisinstead of generalized risk measures as it is common in existing studies. We use aunique panel data set on household...
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conditional share of financial wealth in risky assets of those who actually hold them. The relevance of financial literacy as well … as confidence varies considerably with the distribution of wealth as well as across several socio-economic dimensions …
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