Changes in household structures and employment patterns alter the balance between households with an above- versus a … below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which … household composition and employment exhibited some common features but also very substantial variation. The share of single …

This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a … newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF … between the 25th and 75th percentile of the distribution. The household data also reveal that the paths of income and wealth …