particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

SWB. In most cases, wealth is more important than income from the perspective of SWB. Theoretical and empirical reasons … since the latter has been measured. For convenience and availability matters, income (what people earn) was mostly used at … the individual level. It is only since recently that data about wealth (what people possess) is available and the links …

. Finally, substantial crosscountry heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume out of income and wealth components calls … decomposing disposable income into labour, property and transfer income is essential for understanding and forecasting consumption …

detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …

detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes …