Income inequality statistics ignore temporal changes in household income. …

There is a large literature showing that the self-employed underreport their income to tax authorities. In this paper …, we quantify the extent to which the self-employed also systematically underreport their income in U.S. household surveys …. To do so, we use the Engel curve describing the relationship between income and expenditures of wage and salary workers …

towards saving and households' consumption–savings decisions. There is a strong income and savings relationship due to the … of the households in the period of economic transformation and is the result of the global financial and economic crisis …. This paper provides empirical evidence of the complex interrelations of income, level of optimism/pessimism, attitudes …

income from irrigated crops. Results from sales-monitoring data show that women purchase less than 10 percent of the pumps … and men continue to make most of the major decisions on crop choices and income use. These findings vary by type of crop …, with men making major decisions on high-income crops such as tomatoes and women having relatively more autonomy on crops …