The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the …

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the … 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the …

households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household ….For some we have the original household data, but in most cases we have tables by income group. One by-product of this work is …

There are two main sources of data on income distribution. Household based surveys report mainly on inequality in … equivalised household level disposable income. Top income shares, on the other hand, focus on the tax unit as the unit of analysis … arising from household and tax return data. Estimates of the share of the top 10% of tax units in fiscal income from the two …

with higher total household wealth, lower financial stress and higher expected retirement income. We find little evidence …

. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative …