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The Wealth of Wealthholders

John Ameriks et al.

Review of Income and Wealth2026https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.70062preprint
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Wealth, though crucial for modeling economic behavior and understanding well-being, is difficult to measure in surveys. This paper introduces a new, comprehensive account-by-account approach for eliciting asset holding. This approach is implemented in the Vanguard Research Initiative, a panel of wealthholders designed to yield high-quality measurements for a large sample of older Americans with significant financial assets. Because survey responses are linked to administrative account balances, this paper can show that the approach yields precise, unbiased estimates. Having accurate and dense data on the wealth of wealthholders provides sharper inferences on wealth management behavior as well as on relationships between wealth and economic behavior than is possible in leading datasets.

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@article{john2026,
  title        = {{The Wealth of Wealthholders}},
  author       = {John Ameriks et al.},
  journal      = {Review of Income and Wealth},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.70062},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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