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Very little is known about how households hold their savings, if they have any at all. This study shows how the amount and nature of household saving and wealth vary across different household types.

Authors

James Banks
James Banks

CPP Co-Director

James is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at Manchester, working on broad issues in the economics of retirement, savings and health.

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Andrew Dilnot

Hamish Low
Hamish Low

Research Fellow University of Oxford

Hamish is the James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College and a Research Fellow at IFS.

Report details

DOI
10.1920/co.ifs.1994.0045
ISBN
978-1-873357-40-8
Publisher
IFS

Suggested citation

J, Banks and A, Dilnot and H, Low. (1994). The distribution of wealth in the UK. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/distribution-wealth-uk (accessed: 25 April 2024).

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