This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …

total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer … provided pension benefits per household by 150 percent in real terms. Changes in retiree health benefits, which have only about …

If household portfolios are constrained by borrowing and short-sales restrictions asset markets, then alternative … retirement savings systems may affect household welfare by relaxing these constraints. This paper uses a calibrated partial …

, whose objective is fighting foreign armed groups. We find that foreign armed group attacks on household members are … household member or the village chief, smaller when the victim is another household in the village, and insignificant if the …

results suggest a potential downside of using household credit as stimulus in emerging markets …

We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household wealth and unearned income. Our …

household utility and benefits of eliminating idiosyncratic shocks related to the business cycle as 3.4% of utility. Estimates … the business cycle, estimate the negative skewness of shocks, target moments of idiosyncratic shocks from household … insuring idiosyncratic shocks unrelated to the business cycle, such as the death of a household's prime wage earner and job …

The growth of the availability and use of detailed household financial transaction microdata has dramatically expanded … the ability of researchers to understand both household decision-making as well as aggregate fluctuations across a wide …