Consumer behaviour

This report looks at the options for taxing motoring, concluding that a system of road pricing or congestion charging would be preferable to the current system.

The aim of this paper is to understand what a recession means for individual consumers, and to model in a life-cycle framework how individuals respond to recessions.

Using survey data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, this paper documents the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty.

Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements.

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare.

This paper uses various techniques to look for accurate measurements of trends in consumption inequality as well as income inequality.

The paper examines how individuals respond to complex decision-making environments - in particular, whether up-front financial incentives are an effective policy lever to change behaviour.

This paper develops a new method for estimating a demand function and the welfare consequences of price changes.

This paper analyses food Engel curves amongst the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

We show that an agent maximizing some utility function on a discrete (as opposed to continuous) consumption space will obey the generalized axiom of revealed preference (GARP) so long as the agent obeys cost efficiency.

This paper develops a new method for estimating a demand function and the welfare consequences of price changes.

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data

This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a non-parametric revealed preference framework.