consideration in the analysis of household expenditure patterns and in the design of policies to leverage the most out of remittance …

individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel … Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two alternative processes for household after-tax earnings and study their … process also implies lower welfare costs of earnings risk …

I construct a novel measure of household uncertainty based on survey data for European countries. I show that household … uncertainty shocks are not universally like negative demand shocks. Notably, household uncertainty shocks are largely inflationary … role in the transmission of household uncertainty to inflation. I develop an Overlapping Generations New Keynesian model …

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g. by education, ethnic group, and economic activity) and we quantify the impact … mechanisms, including financial access and transfers. Country characteristics crucially determine which household-level shocks …

the true risk sharing degree if, in reality, preferences correlate with variations of household income. We use household … Household Survey data to provide empirical evidence of the effect of reforms on household risk sharing …This paper investigates the degree of risk sharing across households in China with heterogeneous risk and time …