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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 …
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The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries? In...
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In this paper, we first provide a brief exposition of the simplest version of the selfish life cycle model or hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with...
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profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …
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We extend the classic Merton (1969, 1971) problem that investigates the joint consumption-savings and portfolio … preferences as in Harris and Laibson (2013) and find closed-form solutions for Merton's optimal consumption and portfolio …
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profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561778
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377085
able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the model, households derive utility from consumption, and they relate … their purchase behavior to consumption planning. We illustrate our model for yogurt purchases, and show that our model …
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production and consumption, on long run economic growth and income distribution. To accomplish with such a broad aim, we develop … income of workers/consumers; and (iii) the consequent changes in consumption patterns. The model thus articulates the links … consumption patterns on the demand side. We first analyse the model's properties, via numerical simulations, for a given setting …
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This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …
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