women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply …

wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During …

wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During …

income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …

Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called retirement consumption puzzle. Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …

house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for the UK. On the one hand, Campbell and Cocco … impact on consumption across age groups, consistent with the so-called common factor hypothesis. First, we confirm that the … construction, and provide evidence that the functional form (i.e., an Euler equation of consumption vs. a reduced form life …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … non-migrants' consumption, but that this consumption gain cannot be explained by labor supply adjustments. Migration …

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

sectors and over time in order to examine how household consumption responds to different types of positive income shocks … (regular tranches versus lump-sum payments). Focusing on single-earner households, we find evidence of consumption smoothing in … accordance with the Permanent-Income Hypothesis, since total and food consumption do not exhibit excess sensitivity to …