This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … behaviour is considered, i.e., households do not show a different consumption pattern with respect to their remittance status …

The collective approach to household behaviour models the household utility function as the weighted average of the … utilities of the individual members of the household. These weights, which measure the relative bargaining power of males and … females within the household, are generally regarded as fixed and exogenous. The paper extends the collective approach and …

Gambling behavior can serve as an informative indicator of important household heterogeneity that is difficult to … observe directly in data. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive study of the consumption and … personal finance of gamblers using a nationwide representative household survey. We find that consumers are more likely to …

We study the effects of lottery winning on consumption spending using newly available household survey data in … Singapore. We find strong consumption responses to a transitory income shock via lottery wins. Lottery winners spend about half … of their prizes within 12 months of winning. We show that consumption responses are stronger among households with more …

to the winner, (2) residing in single-household dwellings, (3) with a longer tenure, and (4) with a household structure …

that low-risk stocks outperform high-risk stocks. Using a large-scale household dataset, we provide an explanation for this …