consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. We …

noncash income would certainly reduce it substantially. Wealth and income comparision in the 1979 Rural Household Survey (RHS … oldest should continue to increase and more of the elderly will have pension income. Many models have assumed that …

consumption is rarely well measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been … widely used to assess well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, so an … income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households. We use data from the Health and …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. The …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. We …