This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

This paper examines the impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness at the household … level. Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey data, the analysis sheds light on …-related household indebtedness in a small sample of countries. We further employ a multilevel regression model to also take country …

Closely following the seminal contribution of Jappelli and Pistaferri (2014) - based on Italian household survey data … across countries, household-characteristics, and major items of the households' balance sheets such as cash-on-hand, liquid …

lack of insurance and that social protection can build middle-income households' resilience to shocks through both cash …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … significant insurance beyond that implied by self-insurance. …

underwriting risks both domestically and internationally. -- Insurance ; Portfolio Theory ; International Diversification … correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage …. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively correlated risks. It can be shown that insurance contributes to a reduction of …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …