sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …

attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well …

economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of …

enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non- experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure … productivity in the first decade and overall production increase reached 82 percent after 30 years. Such results are much larger …

economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of …

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 …