this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period … 1975-2000. Demand elasticities with respect to price elasticities are estimated by solving a quadratic almost ideal demand … system (QUAIDS) model controlling also for total expenditure on food, region of residence, household size, age of head of …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

and household welfare. We estimate Euler equations and measure the volatility of unpredictable changes in consumption as …, and document that despite the increase in household debt between 1983 and 2007, there was no decline in the proportion of …