A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing … between top and bottom wealth quintiles is estimated to have increased by 50% between 2004 and 2013, indicating that observed …

dynamics. When the model is modified in a way that permits it to match empirical measures of wealth inequality in the U.S., we … how the shock is distributed across categories of households (e.g., low-wealth versus high-wealth households) …

Preferences over wealth can explain why households do not spend more when real interest rates fall, because they save … more than optimal under a standard model. However, little is known about preferences over wealth empirically. We run an … wealth, consistent with wealth entering the utility function directly. …