We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of …

of future consumption. The structural estimates also imply that the economic returns to volunteering are relatively more …

available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … 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. …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable lifecycle … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption. …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption …