on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for …

alternative approach is to use the accounting identity that total household spending is equal to income plus capital gains minus … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this … second is a study of the transmission of income shocks to household consumption. …

from similar positions in the consumption distribution Blacks end up in lower percentiles than Whites. Education, income …

Significant departures from log normality are observed in income data, in violation of Gibrat’s law. We identify a new … log normal than the distribution of income. We explain these empirical results by showing that the logic of Gibrat’s law … applies not to total income, but to permanent income and to maginal utility. These findings have important implications for …