.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in defaults from 2006 to 2008. Employing land topology-based housing …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …

This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own …, and the portfolio shares accounted for by each of these assets. It analyzes data from the 1983, 1989, 1992, and 1995 … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation …