The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
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Abstract
The “wealthy hand-to-mouth” are households that hold little or no liquid wealth, whether in cash or in checking or savings accounts, despite owning sizable amounts of illiquid assets (assets that carry a transaction cost, such as housing or retirement accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their balance sheets, and the persistence of hand-to-mouth status over their life cycle. The portfolio configuration of the wealthy hand-to-mouth suggests that these households may have a high marginal propensity to consume out of transitory income changes, a prediction for which we find empirical support in PSID data. We explain the implications of this group of consumers for macroeconomic modeling and fiscal policy analysis.
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The record
- Venue
- Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
- Topic
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Field
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Canadian institutions
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- Funders
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- Keywords
- Business
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes