effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … on food consumption (10 percent or 43 to 108 fewer calories per person per day) and reduced expenditures on basic …

catastrophic payments are mutually exclusive outcomes. They achieve this by expressing out-of-pocket payments as a ratio of'discretionary'consumption …, defined as the amount by which total consumption (gross of out-of-pocket payments) exceeds the poverty line. This allows the …: those that absorb more than a pre-specified fraction of discretionary consumption; and those that leave a household …

-monotonic relationship between households'accumulated consumption and unit prices, thus generating exogenous price variation, which is … in gas consumption. They also indicate that consumers respond more to recent past bills than to expected prices, which …

The objective of the paper is to explain the last boom and bust in consumption in Ireland by the failure of consumers … state of the economy. The analysis finds that a large and prolonged disconnect between consumption and long-run productivity … occurred in the years leading to the economic crisis, which led to -- over-consumption -- for several quarters. A strong …

This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …