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How financially fragile can households become? Household borrowing, the welfare state, and macroeconomic resilience
We extend the principles of the financial instability hypothesis (FIH) to the household sector by re-framing the three financial postures associated...
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Urban transport infrastructure and household welfare: evidence from Colombia
The effects of urban transport policies on household welfare are a broadly understudied topic in develo** countries. This paper analyzed the...
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Housing, imputed rent, and household welfare
Housing is the most important durable good consumed by households. This paper assesses the distributional effects of including the value of the flow...
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Effects of rural electrification on household welfare: a meta-regression analysis
There is almost a consensus that electrification improves household well-being. However, review of existing literature reveals mixed and inconclusive...
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Do various dimensions of food security affect household welfare differently? An empirical investigation of India's national food security act
This paper examines the impact of various dimensions of food security under India’s National Food Security Act on household welfare based on a...
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Household specialization and competition for promotion
We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By embedding a promotion tournament...
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Floods, Agricultural Production, and Household Welfare: Evidence from Tanzania
Floods affect more than 21 million people yearly, principally in poor countries. Using 3-year panel microdata from Tanzania and satellite flood data,...
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The Contribution of Economic Complexity to Social Welfare in Africa
Using data collected on 27 African countries over the period 1996–2017 and Driscoll-Kraay standard errors and instrumental variable (IV) techniques,...
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Internal Remittances, Household Welfare, Spending Patterns and Labour Supply: A Study from Rural Areas of Hailakhandi District of South Assam
This paper uses primary data collected from 325 rural households in one of the remote but densely populated districts of Assam, India, to evaluate...
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Perspectives article: income inequality, health, and household welfare
The growth in US income inequality since the late 1970s has directed much public policy attention to the macroeconomic and political factors...
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Population dynamics of welfare stigma: welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up
This study investigates the conditions under which welfare fraud and incomplete take-up emerge simultaneously and persist for a long time, which has...
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Animals and social welfare
I propose a framework to evaluate the social gains from policies regarding animals. The model considers both the welfare of animals and humans. The...
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Household Decision-Making
This chapter presents a selective historical survey of economic models of the household, from both theoretical and empirical points of view,...
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Why Don’t You Leave? A Household Bargaining Model with a Household Preference of Addiction
This paper introduces a household model of addiction that focuses on how a breakdown point, derived from non-cooperative and collective model...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in the Comoros: The Experience of a Small Island Develo** State
This chapter investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the Comoros’s household welfare, poverty, and labor market outcomes. The lockdown policy...
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Welfare shocks, co** strategies and safety nets: a study on rural households of Cachar District, Assam
Effective shock management is an integral part of any well-defined and comprehensive welfare strategy. As the type of shocks facing rural households...
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Intra-household resource shares under poverty transfers: evidence from Ecuador
This paper studies the effect of transfer programs on the allocation of resources among household members. Based on a collective household model and...
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Household gift-giving consumption and subjective well-being: evidence from rural China
Gift-giving consumption is an important part of household consumption and is closely linked to people’s welfare, particularly in rural China. By...
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Achieving sustainable development goals from a water perspective: clean water pricing policy reform and consumers’ welfare in Algeria
Water pricing reform is crucial because it must increase consumers’ well-being and enhance the incentive role of tariff. This paper proposes a...
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The optimum quantity of debt for an aging Japan: welfare and demographic dynamics
Japan’s government is heavily indebted, and the current net debt tends to increase. This paper uses an extended life-cycle general equilibrium model...
