This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …, but only for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …

compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …

. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …

endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the … characteristics of the household and the household head are examined in order to identify the determinants of the transitions into and … characteristics of the household head and the household and particular employment and demographic events), as well as to the inclusion …

ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search … are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating an household search model with … specification implies gender wage offers differentials 200% larger than the household search specification. In the application, the …