The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … the "vicious circle" of poverty using income-supporting social policies, whereas if it is the latter anti-poverty policies … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 …

The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the …

The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and … and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …

, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ … substantially across countries, and within countries by household characteristics such as age, housing tenure, and asset positions …

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 …

largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …

.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 …In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class … households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household …

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice …