of an issue. Second, we explore inequality measures within the CE using the value of vehicles owned, a consumption … Study of Income Dynamics to explore the dynamics of alternative measures of consumption inequality. All of our different … methods yield similar results. We find that consumption inequality within the U.S. between 1980 and 2010 has increased by …

We discuss recent developments in the literature that studies how the dynamics of earnings and wages affect consumption … contributions, distinguishing between papers that use only income data and those that use both income and consumption data. The …

equally large increase in consumption inequality. Most researchers have studied this question using data from the Consumer … Expenditure Survey (CE) and some studies have suggested that the increase in consumption inequality has been modest. Unfortunately … to which definitive conclusions can be made about the extent to which consumption inequality has evolved over the last …