Buildings' heating represents an important share of the total energy consumption in Italy, and to reach the challenging … presents an analysis of different scenarios comparing the penetration of buildings' heating technologies for the residential … natural gas. The analysis compares the potential role of these technologies in reaching a decarbonized residential heating by …

idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household …. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor … disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … show that – as long as the wife is involved in household decision-making – the intra-household differences in perceptions … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …

We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under … that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …