surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the … consumption measures remains an unmet challenge …

-commerce development has shaped household consumption growth in China. The paper presents three major findings. First, e …-commerce development is associated with higher consumption growth. Second, the relationship is stronger for the rural sample, inland … regions, and poor households, suggesting that e-commerce development helps reduce spatial inequality in consumption. Third …

Do poor households shop in a way that leaves money on the table? A simple way to maximize consumption, conditional on … over-consumption of stocks and avoidance of social taxation. Contrary to prior work, there is little indication that …

consumption. It reports three main findings: First, consumption increases when it is "conspicuous" (i.e. is both observable, and … signals ability/status). Second, borrowing increases when consumption is conspicuous. More critically, this increase in loan …-taking is driven by those at the bottom of the income distribution. Third, in the presence of conspicuous consumption, access to …