The increasing availability of rich (panel) data provides many opportunities to test theories on consumption smoothing … assets. Subsequently, we apply this framework to Russian survey data to explore how Russian households may smooth consumption … networks and the state to smooth consumption through capital accumulation, gift giving, the provision of loans and (pension …

The aim of this work is to match household consumption information from Indagine sui Consumi delle Famiglie (Household … as the CIA) which, in our case, are less demanding to assume given the presence of aggregate consumption as common … allows to jointly analyze income, wealth and consumption distributions with a high degree of detail for both incomes …

This paper examines the usefulness and limits of household consumption expenditure data for understanding … intrahousehold resource allocation issues. It also examines alternative data collection methods for obtaining household consumption … nationally representative household surveys, partially individualized consumption data collection (e. g., education and health …