The alert lifestyle, the great availability and accessibility of foodstuff and the powerful pressure exercised by the food industry by means of mass-media, in order to encourage overconsumption, have disturbed all the elements of food consumers’ behaviour, causing them to miss the nutritional...

We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the household. Using expenditure on female assignable clothing per adult woman as a measure of women's intra-household access to consumption, we document that spending on female...

In recent years attempts to explain persistent Gender Inequalities in the accumulation and use of human capital have focused on the key role of household decision making and entire process of resource allocation in the making household decision about the allocation of resources have a profound...

This paper presents a visual perspective on consumption. Following the interpretive turn in management and marketing scholarship, my research on the production and consumption of images draws from art history, photography, and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, visual approach to...

Sociological perspective on shopping time is usually undertaken from a gender point of view. In this presentation we prosecute a different look. Focusing specifically on shopping time with (or without) children, we conceptualize it as “family practices” (Morgan, 1999), in-between family...

A scarce literature deals with the consumption implications of cultural assimilation and integration, ethnic clustering and diasporas, the marginal propensity to consume, home production and allocation of time, ethnic consumption, migration, and trade, as well as native consumption responses....

This study examines the long- and short-run relationship between private consumption, housing wealth, stock market wealth and income. In order to asses this relationship empirically, we use pooled mean group estimators of dynamic heterogeneous panel data on a sample of 30 developed and emerging...

This paper aims to analyze the evolution of the private consumption structure in Romania in the last twenty years surprising three main periods that influenced the composition of economic welfare of romanian citizens: the transition period to the market economy after the fall of communist...

The cost of children is a critical parameter used in determining many economic policies. For instance, correctly setting the tax deduction for families with children requires assessing the true household cost of children. Evaluating child poverty at the individual level requires making a clear...

In this paper, we utilise data from a German population survey to test the validity of the Ricardian equivalence theorem (RET). In 2013, 2,000 representatively chosen people were asked whether they have altered their consumption and saving behaviour in response to the significant increase in...