Tag: household finances

Crowd of people crossing street wearing COVID masks

Workers who contracted long COVID or suffered the most severe symptoms of the virus felt a big impact on their families’ finances from the resulting disruptions to their work, researchers at the University of South Carolina and Montana State University found. When the adults in families with children experienced long COVID or got so sick…

Senior couple checking and calculate financial billing together on sofa

Preserving consumption in the short-term means less resources for the future. We just released a study that introduces behavioral responses when looking at the effect of inflation on consumption and wealth of near retirees and retirees.  The behavioral responses come from a new survey that explores how older households reacted to recent inflation – in…