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 …

households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable … due to the limited pledgeability of human capital. We show analytically that, consistent with the life insurance data, in … account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance holdings, financial wealth, earnings, and consumption inequality …

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU … particular the reconstruction of household budget surveys should deliver yearly results as well multi-annual sufficient large … sectional cumulation of five yearly Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR) which will be …

that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption … the household. In examining the effect of migration, we pay considerable attention to motivating, developing and …

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 …

households affected by such programs. We analyze the impact of the Texas Enterprise Zone Program on household debt and … delinquency. Specifically, we utilize detailed information on all household liabilities, delinquencies, and credit scores from the …

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

household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated … with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …