the share of spending on necessity goods relative to luxury goods in a large national supermarket chain in Israel for the … regulated products, is down by 4.8%, but the cut in spending on luxury goods is even more pronounced at 8%, and the difference … between these two types of goods is up significantly by 3.2%. Within the luxury category, we observe a 10% or more decline in …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and non-college households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a college …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …