relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the … finance ; terms of access ; household consumption ; birth cohorts ; pseudo panels …

behavior are found across cultural groups, controlling for household characteristics. Financial behavior tends to converge with …

behavior are found across cultural groups, controlling for household characteristics. Financial behavior tends to converge with …

We set up and solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of both perishable goods and …

focuses on household heterogeneity, with a special emphasis on the "standard" incomplete markets model. We organize the vast …

How do shifts in intra-household gender dynamics affect the economy at large? This paper parametrizes intra-household … variables. In equilibrium, we find that greater women's empowerment increases precautionary savings to offset low endowment … savings at the bottom of the distribution, more empowerment leads to less poverty and lower income inequality. Another …

uncertainty (the spread of positive and negative news) leads to choice of consumption to the detriment of savings, which …

register data. Results suggest that children does not affect household consumption in the same magnitude previously assumed …

-contingent future prices. Households take these as given when forming expectations and making optimal consumption / savings decisions … auctioneer allows us to study each problem in isolation as well as to discuss the intersection. On the household side, we … separate an explicit expression for the linear permanent income component of savings from a well-behaved nonlinear adjustment …