the household …

average propensity to consume. Household observable characteristics explain only 8% of MPC variation, highlighting the role of …

composition of household expenditure is sensitive to the gender of the recipient of a rainfall shock. For example, rainfall shocks …

related or not, even with the best data. We thus look at household finances and find that individuals delever upon retirement …

To what extent does household inequality affect the response of aggregate consumption to aggregate real shocks? We … first review two state-of-the-art papers with household heterogeneity and aggregate uncertainty. They teach us that having a …

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …