fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry … reminders may increase saving, and that reminders will be more effective when they increase the salience of a specific … expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings …

movements in saving, spending, and debt in 2008. Because the rebate was large and distributed over a short period, it had a non …

We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life …

alternative fiscal policies on current consumption and saving. Studies to date have examined the response of current consumption … consumption smoothing is actually feasible. ESPlanner's saving and life insurance recommendations generate the smoothest possible … consumption/saving of low-income households for the simple reason their income tax liabilities are relatively small. And social …

The effects on consumption and retirement of characteristics of the life cycle, especially the length of the horizon …-cycle effects on consumption and retirement are estimated jointly for 1973 and 1975. There is a weak small effect of a more distant … reducing consumption; goods and leisure are consumed jointly, suggesting their complementarity in household production; and …

, the model cannot account for the low level of consumption (or high saving) as a proportion of income observed in the data …. An examination of provincial level consumption data suggests that the absence of channels for intranational consumption … risk sharing may be an important reason why the business-cycle model has trouble accounting for Chinese consumption and …

frequency variation in technology. News shocks are positively correlated with consumption, stock price, and consumer confidence …

financial assets, and measures of aggregate consumption for each of the geographic units over time. We estimate regression … models in levels, first differences and in error-correction form, relating per capita consumption to per capita income and … wealth. We find a statistically significant and rather large effect of housing wealth upon household consumption. This effect …

The last 15 years has brought forth an explosion of research on consumption-based asset pricing as a leading contender … for explaining aggregate stock market behavior. This research has propelled further interest in consumption-based asset … consumption-based asset pricing theories using formal estimation, hypothesis testing, and model comparison. In addition to …

two identification strategies to monthly household panel data, we find that consumption significantly responds to …