quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC …

quantitative measure of individual and household caloric requirements. We then link our estimates of caloric requirements with … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications … household-scale and changes in caloric intake over time …

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … household, the household spends significantly more on food, in particular on milk and fruit and vegetables, and significantly …

religious organization are able to insure their consumption stream against income shocks and find strong insurance effects for … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for … alternative form of insurance for both whites and blacks though the mechanism by which religious organizations provide insurance …

mechanisms? This paper shows that under perfect insurance, marginal utility should grow at the same rate for all consumers, and … correlated with it under perfect insurance, including illness, being fired from a job, etc …

least insured. We document this risk-insurance pattern in data on life-insurance drawn from the Survey of Consumer Finance …. A calibrated version of the model can quantitatively account for the life-cycle variation of insurance observed in the … US data and implies welfare costs of under-insurance for young households that are equivalent to a 4 percent reduction in …