Do the rich save more? Evidence from linked survey and administrative data

Article dans une revue: The nature of the relationship between lifetime income and saving rates is a longstanding empirical question and one that has been surprisingly difficult to answer. We use a new data set containing both individual survey data on wealth holdings and administrative data on earnings histories to examine this question. We find, for a sample of English households, evidence of a positive relationship between the rate of private wealth accumulation and levels of lifetime earnings. Even when state pension wealth is included, the top quintile of lifetime earnings have significantly higher wealth to lifetime earnings ratios than the other quintiles. Under this broad measure of wealth, those in the middle of the distribution of lifetime earnings accumulate the least wealth relative to their earnings.

Auteur(s)

Antoine Bozio, Carl Emmerson, Cormac O’dea, Gemma Tetlow

Revue
  • Oxford Economic Papers
Date de publication
  • 2017
Mots-clés JEL
C81 D12 D91
Pages
  • 1101-1119
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 69