An increase in a married woman's attachment to the labor market affected her family's ability to smooth unexpected income shocks. Between 1970 and 1990, the sharp rise in labor market attachment provided an increasingly important channel for smoothing shocks to spousal income. As the participation rate stabilized, this contribution to smoothing evened out. In the Great Recession, both spouses received negative income shocks, and access to transfer income became the main insurance mechanism. Volatility of consumption followed volatility of family income trends but at a lower magnitude. Families' ability to weather income shocks didn't change during the 1970-2010 period.

We provide data and code to replicate the results presented in "A Hodrick-Prescott Filter with automatically selected breaks" (Maranzano & Pelagatti, 2025). The subfolders allow replicating the following: 1. Simulation experiments discussed in Section 3 "Simulations"; 2. Application results discussed in Section 4 "Assessing structural breaks in the Italian labour market"; 3. Simulation experiments discussed in Section 5 "A comparison with other business cycle extraction methods". For each subfolder a readme file is provided. It contains information about the reproduction steps.