This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …

This paper examines patterns of market integration for food commodities in India. First, it tests the extent of … integration. The results reveal that in India, food markets are imperfectly integrated across space, with the law of one price …

and unique evidence on which households have savings and how they save. The paper shows that the percentage of savers is … low, and savings are frequently informal. Formal savings are dominated by bank savings, and participation in contractual … and capital market savings is very low in comparison to high-income countries. Poor households are significantly less …

household characteristics and regional fixed effects, households facing credit constraints are associated with 2.3 percentage …

societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during … savings are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This implies that people are farsighted; they work and …