We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

consumption-saving behavior. We construct a novel consumption-saving model where the household must infer the persistent component …

that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

single equation approach, is based on the specific category of household expenditures and the arbitrarily defined household … income and self-employment income, and uses information on all the household current consumption categories. The single …

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within-household … allocations, can be identified from data on household consumption and labor supply. We also argue that a measure based on …

household level. This article examines the effect of natural disasters on household income, expenditure, poverty and inequality … using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2008. The effects of a natural disaster on household income and … household per capita income and expenditure, respectively. Natural disasters demonstrably worsen expenditure poverty and …

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