2002-2009. Using a representative household panel, we find that the consumption response to minimum wage income shock is …The paper evaluates the impact of the Chinese minimum wage policy on consumption of low-wage households for the period … increasing in the minimum wage share of household income and that poorer households fully consume their additional income. The …

examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on … has been confined to low-income economic groups in 2018. Second, we analyse the housing consumption demand of low … income inelastic. Inelasticity or the lack of sensitivity of housing consumption demand to changes in price and income, is …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … behaviour is considered, i.e., households do not show a different consumption pattern with respect to their remittance status …

The collective approach to household behaviour models the household utility function as the weighted average of the … utilities of the individual members of the household. These weights, which measure the relative bargaining power of males and … females within the household, are generally regarded as fixed and exogenous. The paper extends the collective approach and …

Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Households have different capacities to absorb a shock or shift, with …This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of … identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb …

impact that healthcare costs have on household living standards in a high-income country with a long established universal … health care system. We undertook this analysis using a longitudinal, nationally representative dataset – the Household Income … and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, using data collected annually from 2006 to 2014. Out of pocket payments covered …