The analysis of 85 years of food purchases at the rich, market-oriented Saint-Cyr convent School in the 18th century probes the determinants of consumption, its short-term variations and long-term shifts. Using time-series econometrics, we show that there is no equilibrium relationship between...

In this paper we extend the equilibrium search models of Burdett and Mortensen [1998], Burdett and Vishwanath [1988] and Mortensen and Vishwanath [1994] to allow for endogenous matching and endogenous capital determination. In our model, in order to attract a positive measure of workers, firms...

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of femal participation to the labour market when there exists participation costs which vary with labour supply, and when total household's labour income are taxed. Extending previous attempts (Cogan [1981], Bourguignon, Magnac [1990]), we base the...