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Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior : New Evidence

Heffetz, Ori - 2018

Expenditure visibility—the extent to which a household's spending on a consumption category is noticeable to others—is measured in three new surveys, with ~3,000 telephone and online respondents. Visibility shows little change across time (ten years) and survey methods. Four different...

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Health and Mortality Delta : Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice

Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2011

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to...

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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

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Asymmetric Effects of Non-Pecuniary Signals on Search and Purchase Behavior for Energy-Efficient Durable Goods

Holladay, James Scott - 2016

We report the results of a field experiment where we exogenously vary the use of social comparisons "nudges" and subsidies for participation in an in-home energy audit program, and follow subjects through to the subsequent purchase of durable goods. We therefore can compare the causal effect of...

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Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2011

stimulus payments on nondurable expenditures during the three-month period in which the payments were received. Further, there …

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Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2011

Using administrative credit report records and data collected through several special household surveys we analyze changes in household debt and savings during the 2007 recession. We find that while different segments of the population were affected in distinct ways, depending on whether they...

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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey : Evidence from the American Life Panel

Hurd, Michael D. - 2012

Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data...

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Leads on Macroeconomic Risks to and from the Household Sector

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2013

This chapter describes a system, called the LEADS system, for providing market participants, regulators, and households with information on the reallocation of resources within, from, and to the household sector in response to macroeconomic events. The household sector is both a propagator of...

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The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

Leicester, Andrew - 2013

This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey data for food at home in the UK. Levels of recorded...

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Nonlinear Household Earnings Dynamics, Self-Insurance, and Welfare

De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2018

Earnings dynamics are much richer than typically assumed in macro models with heterogeneous agents. This holds for individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two...

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