We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a 'synthetic cohort' dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …

We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying …-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do not is likely to fail in countries where employees are often paid under the … table or engage in corrupt activities. Assuming that evading individuals have a higher consumption-income gap than non …

Financial markets provide imperfect insurance of labor income risk. However, workers can partly insure against labor …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … income. Using representative panel data on urban households from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, I find that a … household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non …

transfer payday, an anticipated and transitory income shock. We find that food consumption and food security do not change … higher than median transfer dependence. Conversely, health and employment shocks (unexpected and less transitory income …

. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …. -- absolute and relative welfare ; income ; status consumption ; signaling model ; conspicuous consumption ; adaptation ; internal …

public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …