Este documento describe los métodos de la tercera ola de la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF2008), prestando atención especial a los cambios introducidos respecto a las olas anteriores. La EFF2008 fue diseñada para dar continuidad a la información sobre finanzas de los hogares...

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...

Incluye referencias bibliográficas ; Este documento describe los métodos de la cuarta ola de la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF2011), prestando atención especial a los cambios introducidos respecto a las olas anteriores. La EFF2011 fue diseñada para dar continuidad a la información...

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

This report introduces a new perspective on the basic concept of dependent failures where the definition of dependency is based on clustering in failure times of similar components. This perspective has two significant implications: first, it relaxes the conventional assumption that dependent...