We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys … measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We … construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …

household size leading to various necessary scale and price adjustment procedures will follow. The sampling design and various …

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …

to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

institutions are underdeveloped and there is a very limited social safety net, while household structure closely resembles that …

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …