We identify the population shares of poor hand-to-mouth households, wealthy hand-to-mouth households and non hand …-to-mouth households in Belgium. We apply the methodology proposed by Kaplan and Violante (2014) and Kaplan, Violante and Weidner (2014) to … the Belgian component of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We find that the fraction of hand …

intensity by the unemployed are heterogeneous across households and dependent on the within-household bargaining power of the …In the context of a collective household choice model, we show that the effects of improved credit access on search … unemployed. We find empirical support for the predictions of our model using a household survey conducted by the authors in Cape …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … children. In our model workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and make decisions on savings, labor supply, living … mothers, providing incentives to cohabit. We also find quantitatively important effects on savings, and on the labor supply of …

This report examines how material living standards - most commonly measured by households' incomes - have changed for … distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child …