) that tracks the same individuals over time to assess how individuals from different income and wealth groups respond to … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …-we observe more heterogeneity than expected and also stickiness at the lowest income levels. Response delays in post …

marital choices may be undergoing change. We expand the traditional dimension of assortative mating through labor income only …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of … distribution of income and wealth within the household context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio …, the most important factor being the individual's own income and labor market experience, and particularly so at the bottom …

five different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision-making in the … partnerships, with inheritances and income being particularly relevant. Furthermore, we find that specific characteristics (e ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …