We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program are inconsistent with other data sources when we do not correct for the presence …

dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second …

This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …

Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …

quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …