We examine the household consumption response to fluctuations in income and uncertainty, exploiting a large panel …, both household-specific income uncertainty and local labor market uncertainty depress consumption spending. We also find …

effectiveness of a consumer financial regulation aiming to reduce household unsecured debt accumulation. A threat of suspending all …

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …

From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is … validates the preference-similarity assumption. The model leads to accurate measures of child and adult poverty, indicating the …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is … validates the preference-similarity assumption. The model leads to accurate measures of child and adult poverty, indicating the …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is … validates the preference-similarity assumption. The model leads to accurate measures of child and adult poverty, indicating the …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional …Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and …