This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …

ex-ante homeowners who rate (cash-out) refinance an existing loan to increase savings (consumption) are significantly …

loan to increase lifetime savings are significantly more likely to underestimate their house value, while homeowners who … "cash-out refinance" an existing loan to fund current consumption are significantly more likely to overestimate their house …

collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) individual preferences. We establish a … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The … same non-testability conclusion holds for privateness (with or without externalities) or publicness of consumption. By …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

's desire to tilt, smooth and stabilize consumption as well as minimize portfolio risk. In this context we also show how the …

We model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting. Using minimal assumptions, we …