response (or measurement) errors. In the case of Italy, the declining level of observed mobility is downward biased by the … increasing difficulty in measuring household wealth (which results in an increase of response errors). Measurement issues appear …

1983 Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF). The SCF is the first data set to provide detailed information on both household … added to household balance sheets. Using a variety of methods and assumptions, the distribution becomes more equal when the …

Finances. The household-level data allow us to study the joint distributions of household income and wealth since 1949. We … shift the wealth distribution because the composition and leverage of household portfolios differ systematically along the … all American households have less wealth today in real terms than the median household had in 1970 …