Health, Education, and the Postretirement Evolution of Household Assets

We explore the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are strongly related to educational attainment. These “initial conditio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Venti, Steven, Wise, David A., Poterba, James M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press, The 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96163
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998