This paper uses Engel curves to estimate real income growth in Brazil. The estimated per capita household real income …, implying a marked reduction in "real" inequality. This finding challenges the conventional wisdom that post-reform real income …

estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico … attributed to biases in the price deflator. The estimated unmeasured income gains are higher for poorer households, implying … marked reductions in "real" inequality. These findings challenge the conventional wisdom that post-reform income growth was …

income. We use household-level data to explain the postponing of consumption despite rapid income growth. Tracing cohorts …

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households … in 1993–2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate an average per capita income growth …

demonstrates how households with consistently lower income, which have shown growth in the years prior to the crisis, experienced …

accounts' base year. It also makes a preliminary assessment of the possible estimation biases in nominal GDP estimates stemming …

then applies a generational accounting framework to Chinese household income survey data. This analysis suggests that a …

larger has been the role of the declining share of household income in national income, which has occurred across …-the-board in wages, investment income, and government transfers. The paper finds that financial sector weaknesses, by restricting … income shares low and on a declining trend. …

€˜buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model …