survey that collects non-consumption data from all surveyed households and consumption data from only a small subsample …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … cannot afford to carry out such surveys on a regular basis. One option is to collect only non-consumption data and use …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … on food consumption (10 percent or 43 to 108 fewer calories per person per day) and reduced expenditures on basic …

to government spending in Malaysia are greater when the focus is on public investment, as opposed to consumption. Changes …

relates subjective impacts to consumption, actual shocks, and coping strategies, using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey. Two … household budget surveys that the crisis reduced the consumption of the middle and upper classes. But the analysis also finds … strategies may help explain variations in subjective perceptions: the poorest were forced to reduce their staple food consumption …

Consumption expenditure has long been the preferred measure of household living standards. However, accurate … and temporally consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight … alternative methods to measure household consumption on a sample of 4,000 households. There are significant differences between …

geographically disperse networks, on which the authors collected detailed panel data. By quantifying how shocks and consumption co … 3 to 7 percent of their very substantial consumption growth to provide this insurance, which seems too trivial to have …

catastrophic payments are mutually exclusive outcomes. They achieve this by expressing out-of-pocket payments as a ratio of'discretionary'consumption …, defined as the amount by which total consumption (gross of out-of-pocket payments) exceeds the poverty line. This allows the …: those that absorb more than a pre-specified fraction of discretionary consumption; and those that leave a household …

-monotonic relationship between households'accumulated consumption and unit prices, thus generating exogenous price variation, which is … in gas consumption. They also indicate that consumers respond more to recent past bills than to expected prices, which …

The objective of the paper is to explain the last boom and bust in consumption in Ireland by the failure of consumers … state of the economy. The analysis finds that a large and prolonged disconnect between consumption and long-run productivity … occurred in the years leading to the economic crisis, which led to -- over-consumption -- for several quarters. A strong …