Staff Reports
Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks
Number 1162
August 2025

JEL classification: C23

Authors: Martín Almuzara, Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, and Stéphane Bonhomme

We propose a nonlinear framework to study the dynamic transmission of aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to household income that exploits both macro and micro data. Our approach allows us to examine empirically the following questions: (a) How do business-cycle fluctuations modulate the persistence of heterogeneous individual histories and the risk faced by households? (b) How do aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks propagate over time for households in different macro and micro states? (c) How do these shocks shape the cost of business-cycle risk? We develop new identification and estimation techniques and provide a detailed empirical analysis combining macro time series for the U.S. and a time series of household panels from the PSID.

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Martín Almuzara
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Manuel Arellano
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Richard Blundell
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Stéphane Bonhomme
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Suggested Citation:
Almuzara, Martín, Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, and Stéphane Bonhomme. 2025. “Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks.” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, no. 1162, August. https://doi.org/10.59576/sr.1162

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