Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …

Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern … consumption expenditure at retirement generated by the model is zero, while the mean is negative, matching the HRS data. However …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … non-migrants' consumption, but that this consumption gain cannot be explained by labor supply adjustments. Migration …

This study measures the extent to which Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupon program affects individuals' consumption …. Unlike other COVID-19-related transfer programs, the Seoul Metropolitan government provides consumption coupons depending on …-in-differences method. We find that the program increased consumption by 18% while it was ongoing and by 6% afterward. We find substantial …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household … leverage, consumption, and asset prices. We find that debt levels exert a negative impact on consumption, which is particularly …' debt in past periods are not relevant in determining consumption; (ii) households adjust faster their consumption to debt …

The cost-of-living crisis has increased attention on consumption and how it differs for particular societal groups …. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women should differ, but the empirical evidence is … scant, due in part to the availability of individual-level consumption data. This paper tackles the question of consumption …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance … first- and second-order dominance in distribution of income and consumption. The results provide a detailed and up … to relatively low consumption inequality. Households headed by elderly, uneducated, divorced or widowed, females and …