This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data

This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a non-parametric revealed preference framework.

This paper considers what role in-home barcode scanner data could play in collecting household expenditure information as part of national budget surveys. One role is as a source of validation.

Joint paper with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Martina Viarengo (KSG/LSE).

Joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Valentino Larcinese (LSE)

This study evaluates an intervention in the dairy subsector by an Indian livelihood promotion institution and conducts a detailed analysis of the main cost and benet factors of the activity.

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field experiment in rural Mongolia.

This paper presents the findings from two experiments designed to test the hypothesis that individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their economic status relative to others within their own society.

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK.