We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using … data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male … (lottery wins worth more than £500), we find a compensation effect within the household, as the recipient's spouse increases …

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … investigating household responses, and the self-employment margin, to fully understand the effects of trade shocks …

or performing household chores in urban areas …

households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply …

We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys … measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We … construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …

, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ … substantially across countries, and within countries by household characteristics such as age, housing tenure, and asset positions …

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax …