Income variance dynamics and heterogeneity

Econometrica

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-32

  Meghir, Costas ^a   Pistaferri, Luigi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARCH; Consumption; Earnings; Income mobility; Microeconomic uncertainty; Savings

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EARNINGS; IMPERFECT INSURANCE; INCOME MOBILITY; MICROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY; SAVINGS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 1642309472     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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