We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

-specific statutory labor income tax codes.We further evaluate the role of consumption taxes, gender and educational wage premia, and the …

in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes to the international differences in hours worked in the data …

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption … to induce many eligible households to participate, and find positive effects on consumption …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …

In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is … comparing the results for singles and couples, we find evidence of a consumption-based marital surplus for Mental Openness and … likely to spend household resources on culture, and their joint consumption of such goods may be a potential reason for their …

I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and … Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the … way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's belief about her well-being. I estimate the model on household budget …

In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire … Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative tax records, and define the peer groups in …