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Among other things, this reflects the tendency, supported by empirical evidence, for higher incomes to impel households to delay having children.
But, for all of the talk of inequality and fears that the benefits of growth are not “shared,” World Bank research has shown that when economies grow, poor households’ income rises in direct proportion to overall income growth.
For example, the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi and Princeton’s Atif Mian argue that credit expansion leads to nasty recessions, which emerge as soon as households, for whatever reason, lose access to the financing they need to roll over their debts.
European households almost everywhere became more indebted, but the impact of this credit expansion on private consumption was fundamentally different in the EU’s core countries, where current-account surpluses grew, and in the periphery, where countries accumulated deficits.
In other words, it was low-income households – which represent a large share of the population in the relatively more unequal countries of the periphery – that played the largest role in changing their economies’ external positions.
This primarily benefited wealthy households, which could, for example, borrow to make long-term investments that would finance future, rather than current, consumption.
Because higher-income households comprise a larger share of the total in these countries (which also tend to have lower levels of inequality), aggregate consumption remained subdued.
With inequality starting to rise in the 1990s – particularly in Germany – these households had all the more incentive to increase their savings.
Eligibility to receive SNAP benefits is limited to households with incomes below 130% of the poverty level, about $1,700 a month for a family of three.
Although SNAP is described as a nutrition program, the average benefit of $130 per month is far less than these low-income households spend on food.
As a result of these conditions, the $17 billion program has declined in scale and has a participation rate of less than 50% percent of eligible households.
One bad idea that is getting a surprising amount of favorable attention is the so-called Universal Income Benefit: providing enough money to all households (below the age of 65) to keep them above the poverty line, even if they had no other income.
All households below the age of 65 would receive an amount of money that would keep them out of poverty if they had no other income; but the amount of the transfer would decline gradually as their household income rose.
Because most households earn the bulk of their income from their labor, the absence of real-wage growth is a major factor behind the stagnation of family incomes.
The average family income of the bottom 90% of households has been flat since about 1980.
In addition to lowering carbon-dioxide emissions and improving air quality, the city’s new transit system also slashed travel times by an average of 30% and cut transport costs for low-income households along the route by as much as 31%.
With tax cuts encouraging households to spend even more and interest cuts underwriting aggressively priced stocks, the house of cards, they say, is overdue for a fall.
In the first quarter of 2017, the so-called net national saving rate – the combined depreciation-adjusted saving of businesses, households, and the government sector – stood at just 1.9% of national income, well below the longer-term average of 6.3% that prevailed over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
China is by far the largest emerging-market economy, with 1.6 million households that can be called “rich” (defined as having annual disposable income of more than $150,000).
But this is still smaller than Japan’s 4.6 million and a fraction of the 19.2 million rich households in the United States.
The number of rich households amounts to barely 0.7 million in India and one million in Brazil.
The number of high-income households is still growing, but not enough to justify the 30-40% compounded growth rates expected by some.
Despite the economic boom of the last decade, China still has 164 million households that can be called “poor” (with annual disposable income of less than $5,000) and another 172 million that are “aspirant” (between $5,000-$15,000).
Similarly, India has 104 million poor households and 107 million aspirant households.
In most developed countries, the traditional nuclear family is in severe decline and is being replaced by single-individual households.
In Germany, for example, 39% of households consist of just one person.
Couples with children now account for barely 19% and 22% of households in the United Kingdom and the US, respectively.
By contrast, the extended family is giving way in India to nuclear families, which now account for 64% of households.
It has been argued that if, in 2007, the US had a Financial Products Safety Commission akin to its Food and Drugs Administration, the market would not have been flooded with “teaser” mortgages that entangled millions of households in chains of predatory credit.
But such loans can be of great value to sophisticated firms and households that may have good reason to believe that their future earnings will be higher than their current earnings.
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