This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

digital divide across socioeconomic groups and territories. This paper exploits data from harmonized household expenditure … levels of household consumption and prices of services are two key constraints. One standard deviation increase in household …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children … economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)'s sense. We illustrate the method with an … application on the French Household Budget Survey. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; Rothbarth method ; cost of children …

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and …

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …

that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …