We use data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to explore how household asset … market assets - drove the household balance sheet evolution; however, we find a great heterogeneity in the balance sheets …. Tracking the evolution of wealth over time among birth-year cohorts, we observe the standard life-cycle asset accumulation …

for and control over the accumulation and use of savings for retirement. …

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …