Scientific evidence on the effect of sugar consumption on obesity has propelled policy makers in several states across … tax had a statistically significant impact on the consumption of soft drinks. This finding is robust to several …

amounts of money by taxing consumption in general rather than promoting Cuban tobacco. For this reason, Spain imported tobacco …

changes in fat, protein, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and on diet's diversity during the transition period 1994 - 2004 in …, inflation has a significant impact on alcohol and tobacco consumption, while unemployment significantly impacts only smoking …) data suggest that individual characteristics such as initial consumption patterns, gender, education, household income, and …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent … ; income ; consumption ; transition ; Russia …

It has long been argued that the anticipations of some future event will impact current consumption and well-being in … model, by assuming that in addition to his own current consumption, an agentś current utility depends upon a reference … consumption level that is based on expected future consumption. Two alternative specifications of the anticipated future …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

It has long been argued that the anticipations of some future event will impact current consumption and well-being in … model, by assuming that in addition to his own current consumption, an agent’s current utility depends upon a reference … consumption level that is based on expected future consumption. Two alternative specifications of the anticipated future …

This paper presents a laboratory experiment that directly tests the theoretical predictions of consumption choices … under rational inattention. Subjects are asked to select consumption when income is random. They can optimally decide to … of the theory: 1) Subjects optimally make stochastic consumption choices; 2) They respond to incentives and changes in …

I examine the effects of fiscal policy actions on private consumption in a yearly panel of sixteen OECD countries …—with expansionary fiscal policy boosting consumption in recessions, having a nil effect on it in normal times or in fiscal stress, and … strongly displacing consumption in mixed states when recession and fiscal stress coincide. This happens because the liquidity …

have asymmetric effects on consumption spending. Department store sales (durable consumption) react negatively to expected … deflation, but grocery sales (non-durable consumption) do not. …