Current tax policies, while commonly thought to promote homeownership, have generally left low-income homeowners behind other homeowners. Using a number of simplifying assumptions, our estimates of lifetime homeowner tax subsidies suggest that the average homeowner in the lowest-income quintile...

Wealth is an important source of financial well-being and investment is an important vehicle to accumulate wealth. A large body of literature has focused on analyzing the systematic differences in wealth and investment behavior across gender and marital states. This paper provides a broad...

Because of the several shortcomings of aggregate time-series investigations, cross-section studies outnumber the time-series analyses on the relationship between saving and Social Security. This study is the first of its kind for an emerging country that examines the subject at two major points:...