Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g. by education, ethnic group, and economic activity) and we quantify the impact … mechanisms, including financial access and transfers. Country characteristics crucially determine which household-level shocks …

households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able … separately. We find that Italian households were able to smooth on average about 85% of shocks to household head's earnings in …/dissavings (40% and 47% in 2008-2010 and 2010-2012, respectively), and within‐household risk‐sharing (16% and 14%). Interestingly …

--956) test if risk sharing across households is complete in the sense that household consumption moves one-for-one with aggregate …

household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …. Household characteristics are important determinants of the consumption risk, while availability and accessibility of coping …