empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …

, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's experimental trial to identify its indirect effect on consumption …

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 … incorporates the possibility of assignable quantity information. This characterizes collective rationality in terms of feasible …

stochastic simulation of consumption choices in a nonstationarity environment is used to show the robustness of the method for …