Consumer behaviour

In this paper, we establish properties of demands in noncooperative models with voluntarily contributed public goods.

This paper studies the impact of a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia on the total consumption of very poor households and on its components.

This report takes a broad overview of the UK environmental tax system as it exists in 2006.

We study a unique data set that collects recall and diary data from the same households.

We estimate a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel.

In this paper we test whether poor households use cash transfers from the government to invest in income generating activities.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

We present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of-living indices.

Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alternative to income for measuring poverty that has been largely overlooked in the mainstream poverty debate in the UK: namely household expenditure.