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

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

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

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 …

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … investigating household responses, and the self-employment margin, to fully understand the effects of trade shocks …

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 …

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

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …