On Historical Household Budgets

Household Budgets, Household Composition and the Crisis in Indonesia: Evidence from Longitudinal Household Survey Data

Using panel data from Indonesia, the impact of the financial crisis on the welfare of households is examined. Contrasting consumption of the same households in late 1997 and late 1998, mean per capita expenditure (PCE) has declined by around 25% while median PCE has remained constant. The crisis has had its biggest impact on households in the top and bottom quartiles of the PCE distribution. Ho...

Household models: an historical perspective

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of Samuelson’s proposal, that households can be modelled as if they maximised a form of social welfare function, was a...

Health expenditure and household budgets in rural Liberia.

Fieldwork conducted in Kpelle village in north-central Liberia revealed that health-care expenses constitute a major part of domestic spending. The actual transactions for major health-care expenditures are handled by men, typically using income that jointly belongs to the couple in addition to the husband's personal income. Women are likely to spend their personal incomes on minor health expe...

New Approaches for Household Energy Conservation; In Search for Personal Household Energy Budgets and Ditto Reduction Options

Introduction During the nineties it was increasingly acknowledged that households and lifestyles are entities relevant to the quest for ways of reducing long-term energy impacts [1]. Since most consumer activities take place within households, a large part of our resource use is performed by these households. Direct (energy for space heating, electricity and gasoline) and indirect (needed for t...

HOUSEHOLD CHOR ES and HOUSEHOLD CHOICES Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical Archaeology