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The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) is a recent initiative from the Eurosystem to collect comparable micro-data on household wealth and indebtedness in the euro area countries. The Household Finance and Consumption Network (HFCN), which comprises the European Central Bank (ECB),...
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The analysis of the distributional impact of fiscal policy proposals often requires information on household expenditures and incomes. It is unusual to have one data source with information on both and this problem is generally overcome with statistical matching of independent data sources. In...
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of Consumer Finances (SCF)-in a timely manner. To address these challenges, the reference year of the sampling frame data … the sampling process. However, we show that the set of families selected in the new frame are observationally equivalent … compensated-for with the use of more comprehensive data than in the past. Other aspects of the SCF sampling process are revisited …
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The total population of India in the year 2012 was 1.22 billion, of which, as per the World Development Report 2012, 76% of the Indian population lived at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). The increasing role of social enterprises and the focus on inclusive growth make it important to understand...
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In this paper, we make three substantive contributions: first, we use elicited subjective income expectations to identify the levels of permanent and transitory income shocks in a life-cycle framework; second, we use these shocks to assess whether households' consumption is insulated from them;...
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In this paper, we make three substantive contributions:first, we use elicited subjective income expectations to identify the levels of permanent and transitory income shocks in a life-cycle framework; second, we use these shocks to assess whether households' consumption is insulated from them;...
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