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

likely to spend household resources on culture, and their joint consumption of such goods may be a potential reason for their …

This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household … municipalities to be either the household head or the mother. Using data collected to evaluate the conditional cash transfer program …

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for …

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 …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a …

larger than those implied by the widely accepted 'square root of household size' equivalence scale.Our results indicate that … economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …

with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …