Integrating economic experiments into household surveys provides unique possibilities. We introduce the German Socio …

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and simultaneously increases the productive potential … of labour. From the perspective of growth theory, the productive-consumption hypothesis is of fundamental interest … because it modifies the harsh intertemporal consumption trade-off traditionally assumed. Two fundamental possibilities for …

two-period consumption and savings model for a loss-averse agent who measures utilityfrom consumption relative to a … of the return on saving. We find non-linearity in the fractionof wealth saved, where the specific saving pattern depends … on the sign of the real return on savings. The amount of saving is nondecreasing in initial wealth and the riskiness of …

consumption, particularly for individuals under the threat of furlough, while simultaneously increasing their account balances … the ability of the standard economic model to accurately predict consumption patterns, although this effect was less …

electricity consumption and influenced by the opinion of their close relatives. We also examined how consumption awareness is … over-analysis). Findings: Our study showed that the number of occupants does not affect consumption patterns as most … changes in savings are explained by either awareness or by a clear understanding of consumption patterns, and only 10.2% by …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …