scheme on households' propensities to save in a natural experiment framework. Estimation results from both the German Socio …

This paper investigates the co-movements of job security perceptions and household saving rates using data from the …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … the partner. Exploiting the panel structure of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the results suggest that children …

unique data set merging a nationwide household survey from Germany with regional data on wages and construction costs. To … household-level socioeconomic attributes on the likelihood of undertaking one of 16 renovation options. We use the model … coefficients to derive household-specific marginal willingness-to-pay estimates, and with these assess the extent to which free …

than access to information, taste preferences, or the woman's role in the household. These findings suggest that more … direct promotion strategies such as subsidies would help the household to overcome its liquidity constraints and hence …

explanatory variables.This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …