social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …

characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings …

of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … of the model adapts a collective modelling approach, where the intra-household bargaining is considered. We further … reform on household retirement behaviours. The paper, in addition, applies the model to assess individual budgetary …

household earnings potential is disproportionally due to one partner, and families react equally strongly to a male and a female …

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 …