Consumer behaviour

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

Thepaper studies land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's reforms aiming toestablish a free market in land-use rights following de-collectivization.

We assess the realized land allocation against explicit counter-factuals, including theallocation implied by a competitive market-based privatization.

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks torelative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility.

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

This paper considers data quality issues for the analysis of consumption inequality exploiting two complementary datasets from the Consumer Expenditure Survey for the United States.

In this paper we model the changing distribution of household spending in the UK over the period 1978 to 1999 and explore the interpretation of remaining time trends in spending once changes in other observed covariates have been accounted for.

We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between quantity and unit value choices.

This paper provides new evidence on the substitutability between private and pension wealth by exploiting the Italian pension reform of 1992.

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This paper tests the published section level price and weight dataused in the compilation of the UK Retail Prices Index for consistencywith the theory of the cost-of-living index.

Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes.

We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between quantity and unit value choices.

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks.