ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …

This paper considers what role in-home barcode scanner data could play in collecting household expenditure information … common to budget surveys are giving a truly accurate reflection of a household's typical spending patterns. A second, more …

effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

detailed longitudinal data and focus on within household changes in basket characteristics and proxies for shopping effort. …

. Children in England are typically eligible to start school - and thus access a number of hours of free public education - on 1 … September after they turn four. This means that children born one day apart may start school up to one year apart. We exploit … children may only encourage a small number of low income lone parents to return to work. -- labour supply ; school entry …

We investigate life cycle patterns of demand for services from household durables using UK panel data. We take careful … for household appliances is flat. These findings contrast with the well documented decline in nondurable consumption at …