accurate information from survey respondents about income and wealth. However, changing survey questions - even for the better … - can create problems. For example, if we ask a respondent about his wealth holdings in 1992 and ask him again in 1994 but … use a different and improved set of questions, we cannot be sure that changes in his wealth are real because part of the …

The ratio of consumption to total household wealth (i.e., tangible assets plus unobserved human wealth) is commonly … component in the consumption equation. The consumption-to-wealth ratio calculated from this model is much less persistent than …

In a recent paper (quot;A Primer on the Economics and Time Series Econometrics of Wealth Effects,quot; 2001), Davis and … Palumbo investigate the empirical relation between three cointegrated variables: aggregate consumption, asset wealth, and … changes in income and wealth? Is the adjustment rapid, occurring within a quarter, or more sluggish, taking place over many …