We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

Using OeNB Euro Survey data from fall 2020, we will briefly address the questions: Who has been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and how severely? We will look at the results along three dimensions: (1) across main socio-economic characteristics, (2) across regions and countries, (3) across...

Key themes: Time Use during COVID-19; Time Use and Family Health Behaviors; Time Use and Gender; Behavioral Effects Time and Financial Stress; Sleep and Employment; Fatigue and Leisure Consumption; Sleep Deprivation Wellbeing; Employment and Time Use; Mental Health and Labor Market. Keywords:...

The aim of the 2019 workshop of the program area is to bring together researchers analyzing wider labor market impacts of environmental quality and environmental policies. We particularly encourage submissions of papers that provide credible empirical evidence on the following issues: - Effects...

Submissions in all areas of gender and family economics are welcome. Topics: - Children's development: health, education, capability (cognitive and non-cognitive) - Theoretical models on parenting and related family decisions - Evaluation of policies with respect to children - Consequences of...

Conference program: Session A 1: Culture and Gender, Session A 2: Education and Training in Developing Economies, Session A 3: Educational Outcomes, Session A 4: Employment Protection, Session A 5: Female Labor Force Participation, Session A 6: Health and Labor, Session A 7: Inequality and...

Workshop program: - Gender and High Skill - Household Bargaining - Political Empowerment - Gender in Economics and Academia - Gender Issues in Developing Countries - Policy and Labor Supply - Mothers in the Labor Market - Crime and Risky Behaviors - Gender Wage Gap - Education and Gender