This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines using Deaton’s “adult goods” method. Based on additional checks (including those for endogeneity), the results appear to be robust. The paper also finds that a larger...

This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the roles played by non-price factors of investment in child education. The study uses unique survey and experimental dataset disaggregated by individual...

A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...

This paper estimates the impact of natural events on the economic vulnerability of Peruvian households, with a focus on the role of frequency and severity. We combine detailed, high-frequency administrative data from emergency records at the district level provided by the National Institute of...

This paper investigates whether agricultural households in the rural Philippines insure their consumption against income shocks and whether they use migration, remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access to formal insurance...

Exogenous shocks to farmers' consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

The purpose of the study is to explore and analyze the factors influencing the consumption, elasticity, and intensity of household energy sector in Indonesia. The estimated variables in this research based on energy and economic indicators in the period of 2000-2013. To get the better result,...

This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures differ greatly across countries and are very...

Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases by 1,499 households over two weeks, we find that through bulk purchasing the average...

Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts when buying staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases of 22 items by 1,499 households, we quantify the financial loss incurred (and the...