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. …

, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality. …

) for individuals' wealth accumulation. Using survey data from the German SAVE initiative, we find strong gender- and … education-related differences in the distribution of the two variables and their effects on wealth: As financial literacy rises … become strongly underconfident with higher education, while men remain overconfident. Regarding wealth accumulation, we show …

In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the … cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential … utility of jobs in a labour market with informational frictions. Changes in wealth may then affect preferences for different … increase with wealth shocks. Duration models are estimated based on the reduced form of a search model. Wealth may play an …