This study examines how household living conditions are related to alternative allocations of control over decision …-making in the household. The degree of control exerted by a particular individual over different decisions and household living … conditions are taken from responses to an extensive multi-national household questionnaire. This study has three main findings …

Using data from the PSID, we find that household income has become noticeably more volatile during the past thirty … years. We estimate that the standard deviation of percent changes in household income rose one-fourth between the early 1970 …s and early 2000s. This widening in the distribution of percent changes is concentrated in the tails of the distribution …

and social security system changed dramatically during the 1990s. Using a national representative household survey from … insurance through asset holdings adjustments, saving and dis-saving in financial institutions, and money transfers from …

investigating the life cycle profiles and relative income mobility in a transition economy, facing rapid structural economic and … mobility confirm this conjecture …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element … of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within-household …

This report summarises the methodologies used in the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in all 19 euro area countries, as well as in the …