This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …, suggesting that urban inflation up to 2005 in China was “pro-poor,” in the sense that the increase in the cost of living for …

Analysis of potentially interconnected residential water and energy demand is sparse. In a 1-in-10 random sample of … electricity use rises. Here I show that in this leading Asian city and tropical climate, water and electricity demand respond … differentially to heat across different socioeconomic groups. When temperatures rise, water demand increases among lower …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …

We investigate the relationship between centralized and decentralized collective demand models applied to consumption … within a household with multiple individuals. The centralized program is described by a Bergsonian representation of the … household utility function and a household budget constraint, while the decentralized program is described by individual utility …

In this paper, the effects of Dropcountr on water usage were examined using household- level panel data for the City of …

model of household preferences for broadband Internet service. Reliability and speed are important service characteristics …: the representative household is willing to pay $20 per month for more reliable service; $45 for an improvement in speed … from slow to fast; and $48 for an improvement in speed from slow to very fast. A representative household would be willing …

In this paper, we use data from a new household-level panel survey to estimate short- and long-run price elasticities … of residential electricity demand in Switzerland. We exploit Switzerland's unique local variation in topography …

(household economies of scale) at the micro level, thereby increasing household-sector demand at the macro level. We propose a … decline in average household size impacts aggregate household-sector demand. We apply the framework to energy consumption in … of household formation - despite sustained trends in many industrialized countries towards smaller household units with …