We propose a nonlinear framework to study the dynamic transmission of aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to household income that exploits both macro and micro data. Our approach allows us to examine empirically the following questions: (a) How do business-cycle fluctuations modulate the...

We propose a nonlinear framework that exploits both macro and micro data to study the dynamic transmission of aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to household income. We develop identification arguments and estimation methods that combine macro time series and time series of panels. Using U.S....

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command within a household. To recover relative resource shares from expenditure data, we introduce a new identifying restriction, weak similarity of preferences across people...

We analyse the long-run evolution of the labour income distribution for Chile. To this end, we use thirteen waves of the CASEN household socioeconomic survey from 1990 to 2017. During this period hourly earnings inequality mea-sured by the Gini coefficient fell from 0.47 to 0.40. We use a RIF...

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital. Using a long panel of restricted-access administrative Social Security earnings linked to the Current Population Survey, we estimate volatility with both transparent summary...

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment, permitting us to construct gender and...