study of household finance is challenging because household behavior is difficult to measure accurately, and because …

rises in wealth in the cross-section of households in the Survey of Consumer Finances. For a given household, the portfolio …

participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half …

population that were household heads rose from 29.5 to 36.3. While some of this increase was due to the maturing of the"baby boom … sharply for the under 34 population. This paper explains household formations due to changes in headship rates in terms of …

in labor force participation has been accompanied by changes in allocation of time to various activities in the household … as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household … tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production …

has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or … connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in …

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 …