this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …

In this paper, we examine the issue of consumption insurance in the context of urban China, where the wage structure … and social security system changed dramatically during the 1990s. Using a national representative household survey from …

With the rapid development of electronic payment in China, household consumption continues to increase. It is of great … electronic payment as a new perspective, selects micro-data of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) from 2011 to 2017, and uses … significance to study the impact of electronic payment on household consumption. Different from previous studies, this paper takes …

Industry sentiment and practitioners’ observations link income and wealth to private-label demand. The intuition is … that decreasing income and wealth increase the demand for (cheaper) private labels. Recent academic research focusses on … measuring the causal effect of income and wealth changes on demand for private labels. Whereas plausible causality is harder to …

One of the drawbacks of using household surveys to investigate macroeconomic issues has been a lack of a dataset that … contains both adequate household expenditure data and comprehensive household wealth and income data. This paper compares … alternative methods of imputing household expenditures in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) - that of Blundell et al …

This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of … identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb … Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Households have different capacities to absorb a shock or shift, with …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …