This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

system (QUAIDS) model controlling also for total expenditure on food, region of residence, household size, age of head of … household, whether women are working, number of time in which the household buys ready food, household type and income quartiles …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UKusing Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find … that, of threedifferent types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wideaggregate shocks have …