between consumer loan take-ups and consumption of self-employed in comparison to employee households, we find first evidence …

-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to keep up with higherincome …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

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. …

collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) individual preferences. We establish a … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The … same non-testability conclusion holds for privateness (with or without externalities) or publicness of consumption. By …

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption … to induce many eligible households to participate, and find positive effects on consumption. …