Several models of intra-household decision making have been suggested in the literature. One important dichotomy is between non-cooperative and cooperative models (including speci...c models of bargaining). The other important distinction is between models that allow for caring and those that do not. We present a framework that includes all suggested models and variants as special cases. We der...

OBJECTIVE To describe the regional and socioeconomic distribution of household food availability in Brazil. METHODS Data from the 2008-2009 Household Budget Survey on food and beverage acquisition for household consumption, conducted by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), were analyzed. The amounts of foods, recorded during se...

Crisis may spread through economy via the propagating mechanisms of the labour market households becoming delinquent due to an initial unemployment shock may be unable to continue servicing obligations versus the financial system. With large debts e.g. mortgages such defaults pose a threat to financial system stability. In this paper we use the Polish household budget surveys to simulate the im...

Recently, there are numerous publications in different sources devoted to the study of the structure, composition, functions and essence of finances of households and their influence on the organization of economic relations between the main elements of the financial system of a state. Current financial science represents some theoretical and scientific concepts in terms of activities of househ...

Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity and a need to analyze key local bottlenecks for poverty reduction and social development. Drawing on an...

OBJECTIVE To describe foods consumed away from home and associated factors in Brazil. METHODS The study was based on the National Dietary Survey which was conducted among residents aged over 10 years old in 24% of households participating in the Household Budget Survey in 2008-2009 (n = 34,003). The consumption of food and beverages was collected through records of foods consumed, type of pre...

Household i’s utility maximization problem is to maximize min{xi1 λi1 , xi2 λi2 , . . .} subject to Σlpl[xil − ωil] ≤ 0. It is optimal for i to equalize xil λil across all goods (first note it is strictly optimal to equate this ratio across all goods with a positive price, and then adjust the consumption of the free goods so that their ratio is at least as high as for those goods that are expen...

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric approach is also used to analyze the impact of difficulties with the new currency on well-being. The result...

Retirement policies often seek to set pensions at levels that enable single and married pensioners to have the same standard of living. The existing literature on consumer equivalence scales provides little assistance to this policy objective as the estimated scales are not very precise and rely on strong and opaque assumptions. This paper proposes an alternative strategy which involves the use...

This study addresses the issue of housing privatization in Russia in the course of the1990s. Privatization was started as a first step for creation of housing market in order to efficiently allocate resources in the use and production of housing, as well as to phase out the state budget financing of housing. Unlike the other post-socialist countries where housing was sold to the residents at di...