the Belgian component of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We find that the fraction of hand … observable characteristics and marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) of the three household types We find that Belgian wealthy …

government transfers on economic well-being varied by household type during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that … pandemic transfers disproportionately benefited households with children, buffering them from earnings losses at the pandemic …'s start and sustaining spending growth over time. Household essential spending increased proportionally with the delivery of …

The lack of consolidated Canadian micro data on household balance sheets and expenditures has been an important … impediment to empirical research into real-financial linkages in the Canadian household sector. Our paper attempts to fill this … data gap by merging household balance sheet data from the Canadian Financial Monitor survey with household expenditure data …