that the composition of asset portfolios varies significantly with the household’s overall wealth and its exposure to … of how asset holdings vary with key demographic variables shows that assets increase with the size of the household and … the education of the household head. Finally, the paper concludes by exploring the role that assets play in marriage …

In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …

some economic models of household decision-making. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make …

This paper maps key indicators of household structure across all countries for all countries of the expanded European … Union except Malta. As well as presenting statistics which take the entire household as the unit of analysis, we also focus … on groups which are particularly interesting in terms of social policy, and for whom household composition may be …

within a household are more likely when a couple has young children, and hence, spousal heterogeneity in patience is at its …