Prefatory Note
Introduction by Robert E. Lepsey and Helen Stone Tice
1. Present NIPA Saving Measures: Their Characteristics and Limitations
Thomas M. Holloway
Comment: Paul Wachtel
2. Measuring Household Saving: Recent Experience from the Flow-of-Funds Perspective
John F. Wilson, James L. Freund, Frederick O. Yohn, Jr., and Walther Lederer
Comment: George M. von Furstenberg
3. Flow-of-Funds and National Income and Product Account Savings Estimates in Latin America
Clark W. Reynolds and Wayne Camard
Comment: Nathaniel H. Leff
4. Patric H. Hendershott and Joe Peek
Comment: Frank de Leeuw
5. The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948-84
Dale W. Jorgenson and Barbara M. Fraumeni
Comment: Sherwin Rosen
6. Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, 1947-85
Michael J. Boskin, Marc S. Robinson, and Alan M. Huber
Comment: Robert Eisner
7. The Theory and Measurement of the Nominal Output of Banks, Sectoral Rates of Savings, and Wealth in the National Accounts
Thomas K. Rymes
Comment: Anna J. Schwartz
Reply: Thomas K. Rymes
8. World Payments Imbalances and U.S. Statistics
Stephen Taylor
Comment: Michael P. Dooley
9. Year-Apart Estimates of Household Net Worth from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
John M. McNeil and Enrique J. Lamas
Comment: Martin H. David
10. Survey Estimates of Wealth: An Assessment of Quality
Richard T. Curtin, F. Thomas Juster, and James N. Morgan
Comment: Eugene Smolensky
11. Using Panel Data to Assess the Bias in Cross-sectional Inferences of Life-Cycle Changes in the Level and Composition of Household Wealth
Nancy Ammon Jianakoplos, Paul L. Menchik, and F. Owen Irvine
Comment: B. K. Atrostic
12. The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984
Daniel B. Radner
Comment: Marilyn Moon
13. Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles, and the Distribution of Net Worth
Ann A. McDermed, Robert L. Clark, and Steven G. Allen
Comment: Cordelia W. Reimers
14. The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances among the Affluent
Michael D. Hurd and B. Gabriela Mundaca
Comment: Denis Kessler
15. Long-Term Trends in U.S. Wealth Inequality: Methodological Issues and Results
Edward N. Wolff and Marcia Marley
Comment: Robert B. Avery
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index