The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how it is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Asset allocation and debt behaviour...

Programm: -"Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession" - Gianluca Violante, Greg Kaplan and Kurt Mitman, - “Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task” - Saverio Simonelli and Ethan Ilzetzki, - “State-Dependent Pricing and the Paradox of...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the conference is open to all, but should be of special interest to both users of the HILDA Survey data and persons with an...

A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 30 September – 2 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne, just before the HILDA Survey Research Conference on 3-4 October 2013. The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right...

Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers from the U.S. and Europe who are working in the area of household finance. Topics: -International comparisons of household finances using micro-data - Household borrowing decisions, including decisions about debt in general and...