We use panel data from the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth from 1991 to 2016 to document empirically what … components of the household budget constraint change in response to shocks to household labor income, both over shorter and over … which include shocks to the value of household wealth are necessary to fully evaluate the sources and the consequences of …

The goal of this chapter is to study how, and by how much, household income, wealth, and preference heterogeneity …, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document the patterns of household income, consumption, and wealth …. Motivated by this evidence, we study several variants of a standard heterogeneous household model with aggregate shocks and an …

household net worth coming from elevated household debt and the collapse in house prices play an underappreciated role. Using … highlight the increasing body of macroeconomic evidence on the link between household debt and business cycles. Our main … conclusion is that housing and household debt should play a larger role in models exploring the importance of household …