This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …

High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains stable while it is the … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid …

larger has been the role of the declining share of household income in national income, which has occurred across …

countries'' historical experience. The results suggest, in particular, that efforts to further raise household income and the … household income and mitigate household-specific risk (such as by improving the healthcare and pension systems) also have a role …

countries is still lacking. Two demographic extensions of the representative household’s stochastic dynamic optimization problem …