The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically -from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this … decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are … explain 37 percent of the observed reduction in the number of adults per household and 16 percent of the reduction in the …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from …

The sharp rise in household finance, both in debt and in assets, is one of the striking empirical facts about the US … have affected household finance. We use SVAR analysis to establish whether there is a link between the retrenchment of … public social spending and the expansion of tax-incentivised private social spending, on the one hand, and household finance …

-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …

We estimate US household monthly elasticities of demand for some of the more popular organic fruits. To our knowledge … elasticity magnitudes tend to be largest in the representative middle-class household. Income elasticities of demand measurements …

This study updates existing literature on consumer/household demand for fiber by examining household purchase dynamics …, and household demographic information over time. Overall, household purchase decisions are found to be characterized by … dependence, implying that lagged purchases have a strong effect on current household decisions such that households purchasing …

and forecasts the U.S. home ownership, using an empirical household tenure choice model. The analysis is conducted in two … stages. First, we estimate a reduced form logistic model for household tenure choice on data extracted from the U.S. Survey … rate, house price, unemployment rates, etc. to predict the future household tenure choice, and eventually forecast the home …