on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …

collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) individual preferences. We establish a … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The … same non-testability conclusion holds for privateness (with or without externalities) or publicness of consumption. By …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

We extend the nonparametric ‘revealed preference’ methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior (with … consumption externalities and public consumption), to render it useful for empirical applications that deal with welfare … preferences of the group members (in terms of consumption externalities and public consumption); and we show that these testing …

wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During …

consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …