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- 13 Mar 2014
- HBS Conference
Household Behavior in Risky Asset Markets: An International Perspective
- April 2013
- Supplement
Sterling Household Products Company, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)
By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson
- February 2021
- Article
Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession
By: S. Bernstein, T. McQuade and R. Townsend
We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and, in turn, economic downturns. Specifically, we compare the output of innovative workers who experienced differential declines in housing wealth during the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Great Recession; Household; Financial Condition; System Shocks; Employees; Performance Productivity
Bernstein, S., T. McQuade, and R. Townsend. "Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession." Journal of Finance 76, no. 1 (February 2021): 57–111.
- February 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Negotiating Trust: Borrowers, Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt
By: Catherine S. M. Duggan and Alexander F. Roehrkasse
Duggan, Catherine S. M., and Alexander F. Roehrkasse. "Negotiating Trust: Borrowers, Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt." Harvard Business School Case 710-048, February 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
makes us happier. To begin their study, the researchers asked more than 6,000 people in North America and Europe, who earned a variety of incomes, whether they spent money on time-saving services. On both continents, those who outsourced their way out of cooking,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jan 2016
- News
Now a household name, DraftKings unlikely to repeat ad blitz
- February 2013
- Teaching Note
Negotiating Trust: Borrowers, Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt (TN)
By: Catherine S. M. Duggan
- 01 Sep 1974
- Conference Presentation
Coupling, Parenting, and the Presence of Others: Intimate Relationships in Communal Households
By: R. M. Kanter, D. K. Weisberg and D. T. Jaffe
Kanter, R. M., D. K. Weisberg, and D. T. Jaffe. "Coupling, Parenting, and the Presence of Others: Intimate Relationships in Communal Households." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Montreal, September 01, 1974. (Also presented at the 1974 meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, pp. 433-52 (with D.K. Weisberg and D.T. Jaffe). Reprinted in Family Relationships, edited G.K. Phelen. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1978.)
- 03 Feb 2022
- News
The Pandemic Made Zoom a Household Name. Where Does It Go from Here?
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Olivia S. Kim
My research examines how firms and households make financial decisions, with a focus on the role of the family. My work evaluates how financial regulations shape credit and consumption disparities within the household and the extent to which business owners' family... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes
By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Property; West Bengal
Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino. "Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-066, January 2014.
- 2012
- Chapter
Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France
Keywords: Credit; Commercial Banking; Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Consumer Behavior; Banking Industry; United States; France
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France." Chap. 7 in The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture, edited by Jan Logemann. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Article
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes
By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Residency; Property; Household; West Bengal
Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino. "Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes." Journal of Development Economics 110 (September 2014): 171–190.
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes
By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
This paper examines the indirect effect of land reform and demographic changes on land inequality operating through induced household divisions and land market transactions. We develop an intra-household model of joint production where divisions, out-migration or land... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Property; Household; Change; West Bengal
Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino. "Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes." (conditionally accepted, Journal of Development Economics.)
- Article
Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France
By: Gunnar Trumbull
Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
Trumbull, Gunnar. "Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France." Politics & Society 40, no. 1 (March 2012): 9–34.
- May 2022
- Article
Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and Peter Tufano
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Banking; Savings; Prize-linked Savings; Lottery; Household; Personal Finance; Saving; Banks and Banking
Cole, Shawn A., Benjamin Iverson, and Peter Tufano. "Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts." Management Science 68, no. 5 (May 2022): 3282–3308.