We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

effect of the coronavirus crisis on household income and retirement wealth, households’ expectations about the recovery, and …, which are stronger for younger households and those in lower income and wealth quintiles. Expectations about household … upward adjustments in expectations about household debt, desired working hours, and retirement age. Finally, respondents …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and … systematic relations with observables point toward well-understood mechanisms from existing theory and should be useful to …

This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household …