US household real net worth through the Great Recession and beyond: Have we recovered?

Household data adjusted for inflation show that net worth is still below its pre-Great Recession levels, unlike aggregate Federal Reserve data. Poorer and younger households both lost and recovered more net worth percentage-wise. Financial assets have recovered more than non-financial assets.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Dunn, Lucia ; Olsen, Randall
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 122.2014, 2, p. 272-275
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Net worth \| Great recession \| Financial assets \| Non-financial assets

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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