At the level of theory it is now widely accepted that energy consumption patterns are a complex technical and socio-cultural phenomenon and to understand this phenomenon, it must be viewed from both engineering and social science perspectives. However, the methodological approaches taken in household energy studies lag behind the theoretical advances made in the last ten or fifteen years. The q...

In recent years interest-bearing checking accounts and ATM cards have become quite ubiquitous. These alternative payment methods offer many benefits, but a majority of households have yet to adopt these technologies as a means of payment. The goal of this paper is to answer why some households have been reluctant to make the switch. This paper uses dynamic discrete choice techniques to model ho...

The “collective approach” to household behaviour relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying household welfare to be a weighted combination of the individuals’ utilities. However, the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the analysis. This paper extends the collective approach by proposing and estimating a framework where the weights are determined and simultaneousl...