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This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury...
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choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the … (correlational) evidence of heterogeneous effects across county and household characteristics, which is robust to simultaneous …
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exchange rates, as well as community-level variations in wage and pension arrears, to identify exogenous shocks to household … household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non … changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low …
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on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … preferences. -- Consumption ; labor supply ; intra-household allocation ; non-cooperative model ; public goods …
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This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …
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Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …
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sectors and over time in order to examine how household consumption responds to different types of positive income shocks …
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We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
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