Consumer behaviour

This article looks and income and substitution effects and demand for nursery education.

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.

This study assesses whether the microfinance institution SEWA Bank, India, is meeting its objective of raising its members' income.

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effect of population aging on the aggregate demand for goods and services between 2000 and 2040.

This paper finds that the relationship between house prices and consumption is stronger for younger than older households, which appears to contradict the wealth channel.

This paper uses revealed preference inequalities to provide tight nonparametric bounds on consumer responses to price changes.

This paper uses revealed preference inequalities to provide tight nonparametric bounds on consumer responses to price changes.

Recent theoretical contributions have suggested consumption externalities, or peergroup effects, as a potential explanation for some of the puzzles in macroeconomics and finance.

This paper considers structural nonparametric random utility models for continuous choice variables.

This paper discusses some of the main issues involved in the measurement of productivity in retail, and how these problems are being tackled in new work using microdata on the UK supermarket industry.

This survey covers recent solutions to aggregation problems in three application areas, consumer demand analysis, consumption growth and wealth, and labor participation and wages.

Colombia's civil conflict over the last 40 years has displaced many families and individuals from their villages of origin.

In this study we look at the relationship between income and healthy behaviour over the generations by studying the association between parental income and children's prevalence to smoke in Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey and British Youth Survey.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

In this report, we assess the short-term impact of the Colombian welfare programme Familias en Acción on consumption and its components.

We examine the effects of different forms of feedback information on the performance of markets that suffer from moral hazard problems due to sequential exchange.

In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.