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 …

changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 …-Keynesian debate on the nature of demand regimes, mainstream analyses of wealth effects and the financialisation debate. We find that … shares, which is driven by residential investment. For corporate investment alone, we find a negative relation. Wealth …

effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …