This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of household energy expenditure. Unsurprisingly, income, age, household size … impact, while socio-economic attributes have a much larger one. The largest variations in household energy expenditures in …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …

portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …