905-944 (42 pages) BACKGROUNDWhile the importance of unpaid household labour is recognised in total economic output, little is known about the demographics of household production and consumption ...

driven primarily by the trend of service consumption. Additionally, we estimate the life-cycle profiles of consumption and find that the age component of total consumption follows a standard ...

How do Japanese households make consumption decisions? This book uses “life cycle theory” to analyze, from a consistent perspective, various phenomena related to consumption in Japan, such as the ...