negative or neutral status-fertility relation. Those with high income/wealth or high occupation/social class switch from having …

Much discussion treats the working definitions of wealth and income as if they were self-evident, but definitional … choices can make substantial differences in the overall picture. To provide a clear basis on which to examine family wealth … concepts. Using the measures developed, the paper examines the distributions of wealth and income and their joint properties …

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine whether or not wealth effects and changes in the systematic risk associated with … Capital Movement Directive did not create wealth effects for the shareholders of commercial chartered banks, investment firms … Adequacy Directives produced no wealth effects for the investment firms and insurance companies, but not for commercial …

Although theory suggests the relationship between crime and wealth is ambiguous, most empirical analyses estimate a … monotonic relationship and find that wealth has negative effect on crime. Using two proxies for wealth (median income and … crime-wealth groups. In general, the expected negative effect of wealth on crime only applies to wealthier counties. In …

wealth held by non-stockholders in the US data, which has proved problematic for previous models with limited participation …. I show that this large wealth inequality is also important for the model's ability to generate a countercyclical equity …

This paper analyses the role of the elderly couples’ past marital history in determining their current wealth holdings … the life cycle. While the net cost of divorce in terms of household wealth accumulation is higher for men than it is for … couples’ marital history plays a minor role in explaining the dispersion in their wealth holdings near the end of the life …

wealth should do better than those with less wealth. We investigate this hypothesis using a unique datset from Norway …. Consistent with liquidity constraints being present, we find a strong positive relationship between founder prior wealth and … start-up size. The relationship between prior wealth and start-up performance, as measured by profitability on assets …