log consumption, assets, and labor income will be cointegrated. They conclude that this cointegrating relationship is …, assets, and labor income that are jointly consistent with an underlying budget constraint. By contrast, Lettau and Ludvigson …

We propose a novel approach to estimate household income uncertainty at various future horizons and characterize how … the estimated uncertainty evolves over the life cycle. We measure income uncertainty as the variance of linear forecast … errors conditional on information available to households prior to observing the realized income. This approach is …

Beginning in 1999, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) added new questions about several categories of …

among aggregate data on household consumption, income, and wealth. In particular, we focus on studies determining whether … shared by consumption, income, and wealth over the long run, then deviations of these series from their commong long- run …