This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … consumption. The health cost increases with wealth and the degree of unhealthiness, leading wealthier individuals to consume more … wealth groups. …

Theoretical models predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on the job exit probability. Empirically … this prediction is most likely to be relevant for elderly workers who have accumulated wealth throughout their working life … the introduction of more individual freedom of choice in pension schemes. The individual level of wealth will become an …

withrespect to parental human capital and wealth; (2) intergenerational transfers takeplace via parental education and, public …

this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which … distinguish household specific wealth levels and two types of shocks: correlated (weather) shocks and idiosyncratic (wealth … experienced a negative idiosyncratic (wealth) shock are more likely to marry. …

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly … workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore … (marginal) effect of wealth on the job exit rate. But even with a rich set of regressors the question remains whether there are …