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 …

Expenditure visibility--the extent to which a household's spending on a consumption category is noticeable to others …

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

between expectations of future job losses and the subsequent impact that these expectations have on household consumption … important impact on household consumption smoothing following a job loss. The second part of the paper finds that although a job … loss significantly reduces household consumption, there is little evidence that the degree to which households anticipate …

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

To what extent does household inequality affect the response of aggregate consumption to aggregate real shocks? We … first review two state-of-the-art papers with household heterogeneity and aggregate uncertainty. They teach us that having a …

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 …