We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with … representative micro data on household consumption expenditures. We find that disadvantaged caste groups such as Other Backward … Castes spend nine percent more on visible consumption than Brahmin and High Caste groups while social groups such as Muslims …

This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. We perform as well a threshold …

We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with … representative micro data on household consumption expenditures. We find that disadvantaged caste groups such as Other Backward … Castes spend nine percent more on visible consumption than Brahmin and High Caste groups while social groups such as Muslims …

This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth …, we undertake three complimentary analyses to examine the dynamics of alcohol-related and total vehicular accidents among …

participation, access to public services and more. This paper studies the dynamics of minority exclusion. From the viewpoint of the … analysis also has implications for immigration policies which have to take this group dynamics into account. …

smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 … fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of …

households. Using recent data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we reject full and no commitment, while we find strong …