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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...
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the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …
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This study examines the impact of a joint financial literacy and women’s empowerment training programme on household … financial literacy on household consumption is influenced by the design and delivery of the programme. A weaker impact is … training on household consumption is achieved through the inclusion of a women’s empowerment module. The joint delivery of the …
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household demand patterns for food are affected by spouse’s relative bargaining power. Failure to account for these effects …
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Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …
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Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents [Bourguignon (1999)] or has treated them as household public goods … show clear evidence that children aged 16 and more and living with their parents influence the household decision …
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Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …
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In this paper it is shown that the intratemporal and intertemporal preferences of each decision maker in the household … account that household behavior is the outcome of joint decisions. The empirical findings indicate that there is heterogeneity … in intertemporal preferences between wife and husband. The identification and estimation results are important for at …
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I study the effects of borrowing and liquidity constraints on the response of consumption toanticipated income changes. Using the PSID over 1999–2013, I find that the well-documentedstrong excess sensitivity of consumption to income of highly constrained households can beexplained by episodes...
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differences in the prices paid for the same product and differences in the household-specific variety choice within a category … household behaviour, a significant and time-varying inflation difference between income groups emerges. Substitution is strongly … behaviour-driven and largely detached from the relative price. The dispersion of the household-level elasticity of substitution …
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