This paper examines the relationship between household savings and family size. Household savings are important indicators for family welfare not only in terms of its investment and income generation prospects but also, and perhaps more importantly given pervasive borrowing constraints and...

The present study is based on the survey of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in Aonla Tehsil of the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. This study takes in to account the housing characteristics, income consumption patterns, awareness as well as benefits received from the selected anti poverty...

This paper analyzes household formation in the United States using data from two cohorts of the national Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) — the 1979 cohort and the 1997 cohort. The analysis focuses on how various demographic and economic factors impact household formation both within...

Survey data for the adoption of broadband and the Internet point to significant regional variations in the United Kingdom. While there continues to be growth at the UK level, the adoption of broadband in Scotland and in London appear to have stalled, in contrast to the three other nations. Rural...

Survey data for the adoption of broadband and the Internet point to significant regional variations. While there continues to be growth at the UK level, the adoption of broadband in Scotland appears to have stalled, in contrast to the three other nations. Internet adoption shows a similar...

We first show empirical evidence for complementarity between marraige and home- ownership: single males with a ‘marriage house’ - a house where the newlywed can move into - is 70% more likely to get married, and house prices and age at marriage are highly positively correlated across...

Zimbabwe like many other developing nations has energy supply that is less than energy demand. This entails prioritization and increased prices economically, however as energy is a basic need, a different approach is called for. The goal of human development needs to be achieved, which has seen...

Using the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) with a panel of households present from 2008 to 2016, the study investigates the impact of social capital on household vulnerability. The empirical results indicate that both commune shocks and household shocks are associated with...

Empirical studies on food expenditure are largely based on cross-section data and for a few studies based on longitudinal (or panel) data the focus has been on the conditional mean. While the former, by construction, cannot model the dependencies between observations across time, the latter...

We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we test the model predictions and find that women in...