I exploit a natural experiment to show that household investment decisions depend on the manner in which information is …

household contract choice: the attributes of the bank that makes the loan should play no role. If households rely on banks …-specific supply characteristics will play a role in the household's choice above any role they play through relative prices. Testing …

widely available on a national, aggregate level, disaggregated data on household spending are scarce, particularly in the … on the simple budget constraint of a household. This approach yields a unique panel of income, wealth and consumption for … suggest that consumption and saving behaviour vary across different household characteristics. Finally, we show that …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … associated with a lower saving rate, consistent with the hypothesis that the relative under-supply of unmarried women generates a …