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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Ageing. 2018 Mar 21;13:86–101. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.03.003

Table 8.

Financial Wealth before and after Cognitive Decline by Availability of Pension/Annuity (P/A) Income (Non-Working Financial Respondents Only)

Cognitive Decline based on:
Total Word Recall Total Cognition

Private Financial Wealth
At decline - No P/A −6.467**
(2.030)
−4.927**
(2.248)
At decline - P/A −1.188
(2.449)
−3.862*
(2.099)
After decline - No P/A −5.305**
(1.880)
−4.677**
(2.252)
After decline - P/A −3.652
(2.452)
−3.923*
(2.266)

N 14,807 14,807

Private Financial Wealth plus IRAs

At decline - No P/A −8.661**
(2.490)
−7.260**
(2.800)
At decline - P/A −4.372
(2.698)
−6.029**
(2.356)
After decline - No P/A −8.215**
(2.204)
−7.088**
(2.699)
After decline - P/A −4.184
(2.985)
−3.598
(3.176)

N 14,807 14,807

Net Financial Wealth

At decline - No P/A −6.906**
(1.979)
−5.501**
(2.175)
At decline - P/A −1.527
(2.308)
−3.919**
(1.976)
After decline - No P/A −5.142**
(1.868)
−3.734*
(2.245)
After decline - P/A −3.678
(2.429)
−4.029*
(2.235)

N 14,806 14,806

Other regressors as in Table 4. Differences in sample sizes across wealth measures are due to trimming households in the top and bottom 0.05% of the wealth distribution. Standard errors clustered at the household level in parentheses. ***, ** and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively.