lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households … alternative approach is to use the accounting identity that total household spending is equal to income plus capital gains minus … the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this …

distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child …

I consider as misplaced the current emphasis on income and wealth inequalities as compared to the socially more … of income and wealth inequalities over time (since 1920): The share of the top 1% of earners followed a downward trend …-29 decade. The share of the top 10% of earners followed a similar movement. The same picture is observed for wealth inequality …

they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. Using the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) which contains … harmonized wealth micro-datasets from a number of industrialized countries, we analyze the income and wealth packages of older … women's households, across these five countries. Our primary focus is on wealth, including both financial and non …