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 …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …

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

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 …

subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other consumption categories such as alcohol and tobacco, medical, and … ’consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …

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 …

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption … to induce many eligible households to participate, and find positive effects on consumption. …

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