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 …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … (HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household … may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household …

Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on … the turning point beyond which more land leads to a decline in child labor occurs at 3.6 acres of land per household …