This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

propensity to consume from unearned income is about three times larger than that from earned income, based on household panel …

diversification for a panel of households in Tanzania from the 1990s-the Kagera Health and Development Survey-with a focus on whether …

five sets of constraints that may hinder the adoption and effective usage of savings products and services by the poor …

This paper examines the national savings behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of … considerable differences in the savings behaviour among countries and over time within individual countries, notwithstanding the … 'model saver' image based on the average savings rate. The empirical analysis distinguishes between private and government …

driven by the number of household members employed in the agricultural sector but not through changes in tenure security. …

Since the start of sharp electricity tariff increases in 2008, South African household demand for electricity has not …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …

This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and … household survey data from 2019-20, which includes a detailed consumption module and anthropometric measures for children under … five. We use a repeated cross-sectional econometric analysis to look at the variation in household food consumption and …