Arbeitspapier

The effect of the financial crisis on older households in England

Prices of real and financial assets fell substantially in the UK during 2008-09. The fourth wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) was in the field throughout this 'financial crisis'. We use these data and earlier ELSA waves first to document the effect of the crisis on the finances of those aged 50 and over in England, and second, to estimate the effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. W12/09

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Financial Crises
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Thema
consumption
expectations
financial crisis
wealth

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Banks, James
Crawford, Rowena
Crossley, Thomas
Emmerson, Carl
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2012

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2012.1209
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Banks, James
  • Crawford, Rowena
  • Crossley, Thomas
  • Emmerson, Carl
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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