This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and … utility at the optimum and above a critical wage level it converts into a pure consumption good. Their labor-supply curve is …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …

pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on …This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …

primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …