In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and then present some pertinent data and evidence that became available only after Ando did his work in this area. I conclude that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in...

It is important to consider the interweaving nature of online and offline social networks when we examine social network evolution. However, it is difficult to find any research that examines the process of social tie formation from an integrated perspective. In our study, we quantitatively...

Ayurveda medicine system has a strong background in Indian culture. Modernized practices derived from Ayurvedic culture is used as alternative medicine in the field of Ayurveda. In this system of medicine, there is a belief that, through Ayurveda protocols, any substance can be changed into...

The advantages of electronic transactions - swift, reliable, and silent - over clunky checks and bulky cash are apparent to consumers. Yet, the payment industry has been embroiled in a continuous procession of antitrust lawsuits in the United States and increasing threats from overseas....

Both organic production and the use of biotechnology have increased dramatically over the past decade. This study contributes to existing work on consumer acceptance of these practices and the resulting products through the use of twin survey instruments. Respondents indicated their level of...

Research indicates that consumers are particularly concerned about the safety of meat. Higher processed meat is perceived as more unsafe than fresh or natural meats, i.e. consumers trust processed meat less. This paper studies the relationship between perceived trust and day-to-day purchase...

This paper presents evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on the dynamics of fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on the diversity of the diet in Russia between 1994 and 2005. All those aspects of nutritional behavior are important inputs to the...

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....

Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...

In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband?s labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...