Projects
Households in mental health care: an experimental study on the role of the household in the care for people with a severe mental illness in South Africa. University of Antwerp
Optimal monetary-fiscal policy in a distorted economy with heterogeneous and bounded rational households Ghent University
The recent surge in energy prices has put ample pressure on wallets of economic agents. Principally households in the lower decile of the income distribution are experiencing cutbacks in consumption, since they spend a relatively larger fraction of their income on energy. Consequently, central banks are raising interest rates to tone down inflation, while fiscal governments seek to retain the purchasing power of households. The purpose of ...
Evaluation of Contemporary Social Housing in Meeting the Demand of the Deprived Households and Filling the Gap of the Housing Market During the Last Decade in Tehran, Iran KU Leuven
This research aims to scrutinize the achievement of contemporary social housing programs in meeting the demand of the low-income households during the previous decade in Tehran, Iran; and to evaluate the impacts of these programs on the social and spatial order in the Tehran metropolitan area.
This research theoretically attends to the long-established debate about the nature of social housing (policy). Does it primarily accommodate ...
INVESTIGATING THE HETEROGENEOUS RESPONSES OF HOUSEHOLDS AND FIRMS TO MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS Ghent University
Up to the outbreak of the Global Financial Crisis, standard macroeconomic theory relied on the so-called representative agent New Keynesian (RANK) models. When the crisis hit, highlighting the weakness of such an approach, macroeconomist understood that the rational expectations hypothesis had failed and that the propagation mechanism of macroeconomic shocks cannot be studied without taking into account agent heterogeneity. This led to the ...
Social relations through consumer practices. Well-to-do households in Antwerp, second half 17th - first half 19th century. University of Antwerp
Labour market choices and well-being of individuals inside households: preferences, opportunities or traditional role patterns? KU Leuven
The aim of our project is to better understand labour market outcomes by modelling the choice of a job as an interaction between job opportunities for individuals (what jobs are available and for whom?), job preferences of individuals (which individuals are willing to do these jobs?) and a household decision process turning the preferences of its members in a choice (how to distribute time spending on working, household tasks, children,... ...
Building HIV competent households: A sustainable answer to HIV prevention and treatment challenges in South Africa. University of Antwerp
Power to the households: a data-driven research to unleash the potential of residential electricity flexibility Ghent University
To realise a climate-neutral electricity system, residential flexibility needs to be fully unlocked. Yet, little is known about the barriers that prevent households from flexibly adapting their electricity consumption to system needs. Using advanced machine learning and causal inference tools, this innovative research project sheds a light on these barriers and how they can be overcome. Two proprietary datasets are leveraged to make this ...
Search behavior in the marriage market, household formation and economic decisions: a revealed preference analysis KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to explicitly integrate marriage decisions in the wider context of household decisions when divorce is a possible option. This project wants to better understand the interplay between the search for partners, household formation and economic decisions. The idea is that making an investment in the ability to search for a better partner affects the characteristics of the match, but also the bargaining position in the ...