This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries …

The objective of this paper is to examine the changes and dynamics of household structure, human capital and the … year or year spell. The main sources of information for this work are the quarterly Household Surveys beginning in 1976 …

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of homeownership. This paper argues … that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and that failing to explicitly account for this …) have a greater probability of attaining homeownership. Thus household level analysis should control for the endogeneity of …

participation and household consumption and savings decisions for Mexican households. We use as theoretical framework the Life Cycle …

household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population …, we construct forecasts of future aggregate household saving rates, based on demographic projections. Fourth, we provide …

work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore … are also driven by quality and coverage differences in household surveys and by the way in which the data is treated; c …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …