This paper examines the relationship between household savings and family size. Household savings are important … shortfalls. Descriptive and multivariate evidence on the relationship of household savings and family size are provided. The … endogeneity of family size in the household savings equation, as argued for in the old-age security hypothesis, is properly …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy …

-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet … exacerbate these problems. By calling attention to growing household vulnerability to energy and water insecurities, particularly …

minimisation, and actual energy (commodity) demand stems from a household production process. The model indirectly takes into …

consumption. The bottom-up elements are represented by the energy efficiency embodied in household appliances. The top-down model …

information on prices and income as well as the energy efficiency embodied in household appliances. The final model of consumption …

'rebound effect'. The model makes these complex links explicit and comprises all energy relevant household consumption …

econometrically estimated based on a new data set of household appliances and passenger cars. This relationship complements a … interdependencies and feedbacks that can only be captured by a full model of household demand. …