on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this … 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 …

fraction of their income. The major difficulty in empirically assessing the relationship between incomes and saving rates is to … construct a credible proxy for long-run income - purged of transitory fluctuations and measurement error. The Canadian Family … reliable long-run income proxies. Our empirical analysis suggests that the estimated relationship between saving rates and long …

. Most families experienced a decline in wealth between 2007 and 2009, but many families saw only small changes on net, and … others saw substantial increases in their wealth. This pattern of gains and losses typically holds within demographic groups …. Changes in families' wealth over the period appear to reflect changes in asset values (particularly the value of homes, stocks …

the changes in income, asset holdings, and wealth of Spanish households between the end of 2002 and 2005 …The EFF collects detailed information on household assets, debts, income, consumption, and demographic variables. One … important characteristic of this survey is that it oversamples high-wealth households. Another important characteristic of the …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …

household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption and credit constraints. …

Wealth at Micro Level (EG ICW) set up by Eurostat and the OECD. It discusses the challenges of producing joint income … reveals large differences between countries, a number of general patterns emerge. First, income, consumption and wealth are …This paper provides an overview of the work of the Expert Group on the Joint Distribution of Income, Consumption and …

We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households. Large asset price shocks in … 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in financial or risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in annual total (non … changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.4 cents/euro. Counterfactuals indicate financial wealth effects were important …

We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households in the early part of the Great … Recession. Large asset price shocks in 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in … of total and nondurable spending to changes in housing wealth are 0.2 to 0.3 cents/euro. Point estimates of the effect of …