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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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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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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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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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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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This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on financial behavior. We find that private...
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