financial aid to low-income households with children. In this study we assess the Family Security Act-a proposal presented by … carried out through a structural microsimulation approach, using a dynamic model of savings, labor supply, household formation …

simple model to calculate the household wealth and saving rates necessary for stylized earners to achieve income … retirement. However, there has been little systematic analysis of the retirement saving needs of low-earning households other to … retirement saving and retirement incomes of low-earning households. While these households save little, their retirement incomes …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … children. In our model workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and make decisions on savings, labor supply, living …

the Belgian component of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We find that the fraction of hand …-to-mouth households in Belgium. We apply the methodology proposed by Kaplan and Violante (2014) and Kaplan, Violante and Weidner (2014) to …-to-mouth households in Belgium is substantial and predominantly consists of wealthy hand-to-mouth households. We also compare the …

Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by … targeting transfers to challenging periods can reduce poverty most effectively by compensating for imperfect consumption …