This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset …

order to preserve consumption levels after retirement. We find that the median older household has current wealth of …Low saving rates raise questions about Americans' ability to maintain consumption levels in old age. Using the Health … and Retirement Study, this paper explores asset holdings among a nationally representative sample of people on the verge …

We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and … individual's asset change between the first and last date of observation, that individual's education and health status when … first observed, and that individual's within-sample changes in health and family composition. We obtain estimates for HRS …