Consumption taxes are a crucial revenue source for EU Member States, yet they also potentially have non-negligible impact on income distribution. The EU's tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, has recently been extended to simulate consumption taxes (CT) across all 27 EU countries allowing...

This Special Eurobarometer survey is the fourth on this topic, following the ones respectively in June 2016, in June/July 2018, and finally in March/April 2021. This September/October 2024 survey constitutes a continuation of the aforementioned editions by replicating some questions previously...

This Special Eurobarometer survey is the fourth on this topic, following the ones respectively in June 2016, in June/July 2018, and finally in March/April 2021. This September/October 2024 survey constitutes a continuation of the aforementioned editions by replicating some questions previously...

By comparing the Bundesbank's BOP-HH and the ECB's CES-ECB household panel surveys focusing on inflation perceptions and expectations with omnibus surveys conducted in Germany in December 2021 and 2022, this paper examines potential sample selection bias stemming from (i) individuals'...

This paper uses household survey data from 27 countries to assess sex-differentiated access to social protection programs and their impact on mitigating gender gaps in the labor market. The analysis includes indicators of coverage, distribution of social protection recipients, and adequacy of...

Education is a cornerstone in promoting the overall welfare of individuals and plays a pivotal role in shaping their lives. As the developing world grapples with the multifaceted challenges of poverty, there is a growing emphasis on evaluating poverty from a multidimensional perspective....

This paper surveys what we have learned on financial literacy and its relation to financial behavior from data collected in the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) Household Survey, a project done in collaboration with academics. A pioneering survey fielded in 2005 included an extensive set of financial...

Developing countries generally exhibit low 'saving' (flow concept) and 'savings' (stock concept) rates. The factors underlying household positive or negative saving behaviours in developed and developing countries are not new in the macroeconomic literature. Whereas some determinants are...

We use detailed Norwegian administrative data to identify the income loss associated with the onset of unemployment and analyze the corresponding consumption expenditure response and the extent to which this response is related to household balance sheet components. Unemployment results in a...

Food insecurity has become of increasing concern following the economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent sharp rise in inflation, including food price inflation. To better understand the conditions of food insecurity and the impacts of inflation and other drivers of food...

Since the end of inheritance and gift tax in 2008, there has been hardly any data on the distribution and volume of inheritances in Austria. Voluntary household surveys capture past inheritances, but there is a lack of current values as well as forecasts on the future development of...

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...

We estimate the dynamic effects of a high-frequency identified unionwide quantitative easing (QE) shock on real GDP, inflation and unemployment in all euro area countries. We document that the effects of QE are very heterogenous across countries as regards size, significance and timing,...

Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this study offers new and rigorous evidence demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can...