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 …

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 …

-based utility in the context of video-game engagement. Using data on 2.8 million matches from League of Legends, we find evidence … surprise, and flow theory from psychology. We then leverage our estimated model and an evolutionary algorithm to find the …

(gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household … public goods and joint time consumption). This paper uses the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003-2011 to test whether …

We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this … a consumption good with very low intertemporal substitution. The expenditures for GPs are unaltered. The findings … indicate that consumption of health services critically depends on the existence of user charges versus universal coverage. The …

neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing … data, we find that recent migrant households gain status from using visible consumption to impress their new neighbors …. -- absolute and relative welfare ; income ; status consumption ; signaling model ; conspicuous consumption ; adaptation ; internal …

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 …

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 …