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 …

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. …

) 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 …