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US household real net worth through the Great Recession and beyond: Have we recovered?

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  • Dunn, Lucia
  • Olsen, Randall

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Household data adjusted for inflation show that net worth is still below its pre-Great Recession levels, unlike aggregate Federal Reserve data. Poorer and younger households both lost and recovered more net worth percentage-wise. Financial assets have recovered more than non-financial assets.

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  • Dunn, Lucia & Olsen, Randall, 2014. "US household real net worth through the Great Recession and beyond: Have we recovered?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 122(2), pages 272-275.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:122:y:2014:i:2:p:272-275
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.12.007
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    Keywords

    Net worth; Great recession; Financial assets; Non-financial assets;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts

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