We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household … household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is … validates the preference-similarity assumption. The model leads to accurate measures of child and adult poverty, indicating the …

household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional …Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and …

-capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest … stability upon exclusive goods across individuals or household types) and the observation of exclusive goods. So far, the … identifying poor individuals in non-poor households while the traditional approach understates poverty among the poorest …

This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …

between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike …

socioeconomic characteristics, housing traits, country-specific constant terms, and household unobserved heterogeneity. We attribute … access to liquidity. Household's reported distress is also affected by excess indebtedness relative to the debt load of …

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 considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in … Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and … hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility function and household decisions are assumed to be Pareto …