The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … determined and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a …

sharing of income within the household. This paper uses data on financial satisfaction to simultaneously estimate the sharing … rule and the economy of scale parameter in a collective household model. The estimates indicate substantial scale economies … household resources, but there is heterogeneity with respect to the wives' contribution to household income and the duration of …

sharing of income within the household. This paper uses data on financial satisfaction to simultaneously estimate the sharing … rule and the economy of scale parameter in a collective household model. The estimates indicate substantial scale economies … household resources, but there is heterogeneity with respect to the wives’ contribution to household income and the duration of …

sharing of income within the household. This paper uses data on financial satisfaction to simultaneously estimate the sharing … rule and the economy of scale parameter in a collective household model. The estimates indicate substantial scale economies … household resources, but there is heterogeneity with respect to the wives' contribution to household income and the duration of …

to become harder to obtain during 2010. -- household debt and saving ; 2007 recession ; credit access ; mortgage debt …Using credit report records and data collected from several household surveys, we analyze changes in household debt and … saving during the 2007 recession. We find that, while different segments of the population were affected in distinct ways …

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 … share of the population live in extended households and/or polygamous ones. Such household structures are the exception or …

This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders … Household Panel which I complement with geographic and socio-economic data. I show that low- and middle-income households …

households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able … separately. We find that Italian households were able to smooth on average about 85% of shocks to household head's earnings in …/dissavings (40% and 47% in 2008-2010 and 2010-2012, respectively), and within‐household risk‐sharing (16% and 14%). Interestingly …

the Belgian component of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We find that the fraction of hand … observable characteristics and marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) of the three household types We find that Belgian wealthy …