In fifteen European countries, China, and the US, stocks and business equity as a share of total household assets are …

. We select and analyze a broad set of indicators from household survey data to study what actions Russian households take … formulate hypotheses on household smoothing behaviour and to delineate the features of a more rigorous analysis. The picture … families while other findings point towards the use of household food production as an income smoothing strategy as opposed to …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … novel survey for Senegal in which consumption data were collected at a disaggregated level, this paper quantifies these …