Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2015
We develop a new quantile-based panel data framework to study the nature of income persistence and the transmission of … income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the …