Journal article
The HILDA Survey: What's in it for finance research and practitioners?
R WILKINS
JASSA: The Finsia Journal of Applied Finance | Financial Services Institute of Australasia | Published : 2016
Abstract
The HILDA Survey is a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households, which provides household wealth and other financial data. It represents a rich resource for empirical household finance researchers and many empirical studies in recent years have used the HILDA wealth data to examine household financial decision making and outcomes. However, there remain significant unexploited opportunities to use this longitudinal data to explore the causal pathways to wealth accumulation.
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Funding Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Kevin Davis for comments on an earlier version of this paper. This paper uses unit-record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA Project was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (Melbourne Institute). The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the author and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute.