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 … consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept -- on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … points (an increase of 18 percent). The negative effects of the shock span other areas of human welfare. Households cut back …

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

biases. Within countries, richer households felt a decline in their relative income position, consistent with evidence from … household budget surveys that the crisis reduced the consumption of the middle and upper classes. But the analysis also finds …This paper analyzes the subjective impact of the global economic crisis on households in Europe and Central Asia and …

alternative methods to measure household consumption on a sample of 4,000 households. There are significant differences between … in illiterate households and for urban respondents completing household diaries; recall modules measure lower consumption …Consumption expenditure has long been the preferred measure of household living standards. However, accurate …

geographically disperse networks, on which the authors collected detailed panel data. By quantifying how shocks and consumption co …-vary across linked households, they show how migrants unilaterally insure their extended family members at home. This finding … 3 to 7 percent of their very substantial consumption growth to provide this insurance, which seems too trivial to have …

: those that absorb more than a pre-specified fraction of discretionary consumption; and those that leave a household … 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 …

-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 …