November 31, 2002 Saving, Wealth, and the Transition from Transfers to Individual Responsibility: The cases of Taiwan and the United States Ronald Lee Demography and Economics University of California 2232 Piedmont Ave Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: rlee@demog.berkeley.edu Andrew Mason Department of Economics University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Population and Health Studies East-West Center E-mail: amason@hawaii.edu Timothy Miller Demography University of California 2232 Piedmont Ave Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: tmiller@demog.berkeley.edu Lee and Miller’s research for this paper was funded by NIA grant R37 AG11761. Mason’s support for this paper was provided by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.