Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...

Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...

It is clear that how well off people are, is not only a matter of income, but also a matter of wealth, in both absolute and relative terms. Using an almost non-observed data approach, Davies et al. (2006) estimated the household wealth and its distribution for a basket of countries for the year...

Designing a system of policies for basic goods subsidy adjustments and welfare effects of subsidy reduction widely accentuate by Iranian policy makers and economists. This article tries to answer to the one of the main questions of this matter such as, "What the equivalent amount of money for...

To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have...

Two previous articles proposed and validated a continuous measure of the material standard of living as concerns basic household infrastructure (housing, water, energy and sanitation). The scale is based on Principal Component Analysis of a large number of variables derived from census...

In a previous paper a quantitative scale was developed, and applied to Bolivia, to measure some basic aspects of the material standard of living, namely those related to the physical infrastructure of households, involving shelter and basic services as measured in population censuses. Using data...

In the context of analysis of Millennium Goals and Human Development in Bolivia a synthetic measure of household infrastructure was developed. The measure was constructed applying factor analysis to a large number of census indicators concerning shelter, living space, water supply, energy and...

Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...