for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath. …

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 …

increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal … that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly … more of Mexican Americans’ wealth disadvantage is attributable to the fact that these families have more young children and …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …

levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the … wealth gap between mixed and native-born couples is not statistically significant, immigrant-only couples have approximately … $150,000 less wealth on average than native-born couples. Relative to equally wealthy native-born couples, immigrant …

Do income disparities between men and women translate into longer term wealth disparities? We use the Survey of Income …