Age is among the strongest predictors of household wealth. Many more factors are associated with wealth differences - being paired, education, race/ethnicity, employment status, geographic region, parents' SES, and much else - but age's effect is very strong
net of them.
Joe
Joseph Nathan Cohen
Associate Professor of Sociology
City University of New York, Queens College
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Email: joseph.cohen@qc.cuny.edu