Consumer behaviour

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector.

We study noncooperative models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods.

We develop and test a model on the effects of spatial housing price risk on housing choice.

Job losers exhibit significant heterogeneity in wealth holdings and in the marginal propensity to consume transitory income.

We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients.

Several explanations for the observed limited stock market participation have been offered in the literature.

In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.

We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumptioninequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to incomeshocks.

This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data.

This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data.

A nonparametricmodel of the wealth effect on self-employment is estimated using micro data on theoccupational choices of return migrants in Tunisia.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, con-sidering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households.

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