The lack of consolidated Canadian micro data on household balance sheets and expenditures has been an important … impediment to empirical research into real-financial linkages in the Canadian household sector. Our paper attempts to fill this … data gap by merging household balance sheet data from the Canadian Financial Monitor survey with household expenditure data …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic …

Using data on elderly individuals and couples, we estimate a collective model of household consumption of a variety of … costs of living relative to living alone. We also identify the fraction of household resources consumed by wives versus … husbands, taking this jointness of some consumption into account. The results are relevant for household bargaining models and …