household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …

This paper provides a household-level perspective on the rise of global saving and wealth since the 1980s. We calculate … China. In the past four decades, global saving inequality has risen sharply. The share of household saving flows coming from … the richest 10% of household increased by 60% while saving of middle-class households has fallen sharply. The most …

This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a … newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF … between the 25th and 75th percentile of the distribution. The household data also reveal that the paths of income and wealth …

We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … increases in household income and consumption in the long-term emerged from our empirical investigation. Deviating from the … nuanced picture with respect to household consumption impacts. We observe a reduction of food consumption and only find an …

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

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 …

information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household’s total …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …