We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent … years, namely 1997-2007. Our dataset is a mixed panel/multi-year cross-sections of dwellings/households in the 50 largest … household residential energy usage at the national level, containing the broadest geographical coverage, and with the longest …

studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To reduce this shortcoming, we use longitudinal data from Australia (HILDA …) that tracks the same individuals over time to assess how individuals from different income and wealth groups respond to … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …

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

bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and …

This paper examines the impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness at the household … positive impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness. … level. Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey data, the analysis sheds light on …

The desirability, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of government welfare policies depend crucially on the income risk … saving and labor supply. Shocks to labour earnings are a key driver of income risk. A recent literature has documented that … Policy, and Household Welfare,” funded by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation. The project documents that the dynamics of …

by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment … social assistance increases aggregate welfare. Income pooling in married households decreases the welfare value of social …