This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

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

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …