The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling …-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The distinction between true state dependence and individual heterogeneity has …

endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the … characteristics of the household and the household head are examined in order to identify the determinants of the transitions into and … characteristics of the household head and the household and particular employment and demographic events), as well as to the inclusion …

prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life …, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ …

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the … 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the …

largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …