We measure the response of household spending to the economic stimulus payments (ESPs) disbursed in mid-2008, using …

Using administrative credit report records and data collected through several special household surveys we analyze … changes in household debt and savings during the 2007 recession. We find that while different segments of the population were … higher saving rate appears to reflect a considerable decline in household debt, with households paying down mortgage debt in …

Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the …

with information on the reallocation of resources within, from, and to the household sector in response to macroeconomic … events. The household sector is both a propagator of shocks to the economy, as wealth is redistributed across households with … of information on household exposures to macroeconomic risk factors - can potentially lead to better macroeconomic …

. There is clear evidence that short-term diaries do not accurately capture household food spending patterns given infrequency …

individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel … Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two alternative processes for household after-tax earnings and study their …

related or not, even with the best data. We thus look at household finances and find that individuals delever upon retirement …

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …