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Updates to the sampling of wealthy families in the survey of consumer finances
Bricker, Jesse; Henriques, Alice M.; Moore, Kevin - 2017
estimate the geographic distribution of wealthy families and show that the current distribution is similar to the past. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803673
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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples
Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010
This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between … savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular … liabilities with individual psychological well-being. -- Savings ; investments ; debts ; marriage ; cohabitation ; gender ; intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758928
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Infrastructure and inequality : insights from incorporating key economic facts about household heterogeneity
Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 22 (2018) 4, pp. 864-895
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916841
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Understanding domestic saving in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela; Karver, Jonathan - 2015
This study addresses why Mexico continues to show below-average economic growth rates in spite of displaying … systematically higher domestic savings than other countries in the region. Using the wealth of relevant databases available for the … country, the paper finds that a possible explanation is that household savings account for a majority of domestic savings, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485820
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Household credit and growth: international evidence
Léon, Florian - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098838
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Billions on the sidewalk : improving savings by reducing investment mistakes
Panizza, Ugo - 2015
This paper contributes the on-going debate on income inequality in advanced economies with a proposal aimed at reducing costly investment mistakes that are prevalent among middle-class households. The paper starts by describing how households should invest, compares it with what we know about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339155
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Determinants of rural household saving : the case of north Shewa zone, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia
Azeref, Alebachew Goshim; Gelagil, Yohanes Tefera - In: Journal of investment and management : JIM 7 (2018) 5, pp. 151-156
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963353
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The Distribution of Consumption-ExpenditureBudget Shares. Evidence fromItalian Households
Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditure budgetshares distributions (HBSDs) —defined as the share of household total expenditurespent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004....
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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany
Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441591
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...
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