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Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK : can medical expenditures explain the difference?

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Levell, Peter; … - 2016

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534273

Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK : can medical expenditures explain the difference?

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Levell, Peter; … - 2015

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures. Among all the potential …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498398

Household consumption when marriage is stable

Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas; Rock, Bram de; … - 2014

. Stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We characterize stable marriage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412294

The retirement consumption puzzle : evidence from a regression discontinuity approach

Battistin, Erich; Brugiavini, Agar; Rettore, Enrico; … - 2008

In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy. We use micro data on food and total non-durable household spending covering the period 1993-2004, and evaluate the change in consumption that accompanies retirement by exploiting the exogenous variability in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754525

Household panel data, scanner data, expenditure, food, duration models, attrition

Leicester, Andrew (contributor); … - 2009

In terms of collecting comprehensive panel expenditure data, there are trade-offs to be made in terms of the demands imposed on respondents and the level of detail and spending coverage collected. Existing comprehensive spending data tends to be cross-sectional whilst panel studies include only...