Inferring behaviors and standards of living from household budget data
This session presents studies of behaviors and standards of living based on household budget survey data. Large-scale surveys were carried out in most countries around the world during the decades around the turn of the century 1900. The detailed information available in these sources allow us to investigate aspects of the life of households and families that are otherwise difficult to study. Eight papers will be presented during the session covering different, but interrelated, aspects of behaviors and standards of living: life styles, diets and health, the nutritional history of an historical population, risk-sharing, income smoothing and intergenerational transfers in households, and consumer behavior as an indicator of immigrant integration.
Organizer(s)
- Stefan Öberg, University of Gothenburg, Öberg
Session members
- Brian A’Hearn, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, A’Hearn
- Nicola Amendola, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Amendola
- Lars Fredrik Andersson, Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, Andersson
- Hanna Augustin, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Augustin
- Federico Belotti, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Belotti
- Liselotte Eriksson, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University, Eriksson
- Sergio Espuelas-Barroso, Department of Economic History, University of Barcelona, Espuelas-Barroso
- Michael R. Haines, Department of Economics, Colgate University, Haines
- Alfonso Herranz-Loncan, Department of Economic History, University of Barcelona, Herranz-Loncan
- Christer Lundh, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Lundh
- Malin Nilsson, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Nilsson
- Paul Nystedt, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Nystedt
- Stefan Öberg, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Öberg
- Kota Ogasawara, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ogasawara
- Deborah Oxley, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxley
- Concepció Patxot-Cardoner, Department of Economic Theory, University of Barcelona, Patxot-Cardoner
- Guadalupe Souto-Nieves, Department of Applied Economics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Souto-Nieves
- Giovanni Vecchi, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Vecchi
Proposed discussant(s)
- Peter H. Lindert, Economics, University of California - Davis, Lindert
- Evan Roberts, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Roberts