Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price … unequal the distribution of aggregate consumption across households. Likewise, changes in observed nominal consumption … faced by a rich consumer located in the 80 to 90 percentile of the distribution of consumption expenditure. In most episodes …

countries. I focus on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and … corrects potential biases in the estimation of own- and cross-price elasticities in consumption. I apply the method to an …. In particular, I show that allowing for consumption and income responses is a key element of an accurate empirical …

improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … transmission from income to consumption inequality, which suggests the presence of powerful institutions that favor consumption …

A common criticism of balanced budget fiscal rules is that they increase the consumption volatility of financially … constrained households who are unable to smooth consumption. This paper evaluates the welfare consequences of simple fiscal rules … to perfectly smooth constrained households? consumption without adversely affecting unconstrained households …

the bottom of the income distribution, namely through consumption, household production, and market-based labor activities … trade and the ultimate welfare impact. Trade changes in agriculture directly affect households through their consumption …

consumption expenditures and calories per capita were less dramatic. However, dietary quality, as captured by the food consumption … consumption outcomes, particularly for those in moderately-affected areas, the proportion of households with access to certain …, risk-coping strategies, including financial account ownership, access to off-farm income sources, and adult children living …

systematically larger for rice-producing households, generating a quasi-random source of variation in the size of the shock driven by …

of the relative causal contributions of the risk and experience of violence. The article also provides the first micro …