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Household Expenditure Patterns : Evidence from Working-Couple Households in Turkey
Bircan Bodur, Fatma - 2016
Gender roles in household consumption patterns have been studied in the literature in relation to two models of … household behavior; household production model and the unitary versus non-unitary models of the family decision making. The … implications of the first model relate to the changes in household expenditure patterns as a result of the withdrawal of the wives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002822
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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271201
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Household consumption expenditure in Thailand during the first COVID-19 lockdown
Hean, Oudom; Nattanicha Chairassamee - In: Asia-Pacific sustainable development journal 28 (2021) 2, pp. 1-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440226
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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?
Hess, Gregory D. - 2001
This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399259
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Measuring the distribution of well-being : why income and consumption give different answers
Sabelhaus, John; Schneider, Ulrike - 1997
Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income measures as well as consumption based measures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526411
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Job Finding, Job Loss and Consumption Behaviour
Koc, Emre - 2015
According to the permanent income/life-cycle hypothesis (PILCH), under standard preferences anticipated changes in employment status should not affect the changes in consumption. In this paper, we investigate the consumption behaviour of individuals who lose their jobs and those who find a job....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025479
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Job Finding, Job Loss and Consumption Behaviour
Koc, Emre - 2015
According to the permanent income/life-cycle hypothesis (PILCH), under standard preferences anticipated changes in employment status should not affect the changes in consumption. In this paper, we investigate the consumption behaviour of individuals who lose their jobs and those who find a job....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027008
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Marriage and Consumption Insurance : What's Love Got to Do with it?
Hess, Gregory D. - 2021
This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a "hedge" (i.e., a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320884
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Do agricultural households share risks in Thailand? : evidence from Thai socio-economic panel survey data
Sirisankanan, Aeggarchat - In: Asia Pacific development journal 20 (2013) 2, pp. 89-108
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532344
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Minimum wage : does it improve welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Messina, Julián; Sanz de … - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238212