equivalent income, we find that some respondents obtain a higher living standard when living in a multiperson household – due to … sharing income within the household – compared to the living standard they could obtain when living as a single. Our results …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

from zero effects on household consumption. We use propensity score matching to examine how recipients made use of the …

household leverage concentrated in the bottom 95 percent ultimately spawned the Great Recession. The demand drag of rising …One might expect that rising US income inequality would reduce demand growth and create a drag on the economy because … disaggregating household spending, income, saving, and debt between the bottom 95 percent and top 5 percent of the income …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

income shocks on household food spending. The self-reported shocks in the SCF are derived from survey questions about the gap … between self-reported income shocks and household food spending, though the estimated spending responses are only a small part …