social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …