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Fear of Covid-19 contagion : the idiosyncratic effects of an aggregate pandemic shock
Kikuchi, Junichi; Nagao, Ryoya; Nakazono, Yoshiyuki - 2021
We examine how the fear of COVID-19 contagion influences consumer expenditure patterns. We show that the consumption … expenditure responses to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are significantly heterogeneous across generations. We find that the … younger generation. These heterogeneous responses are likely to be due to the fear of the COVID-19 infection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665540
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to … women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534135
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to … women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521158
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Household spending out of a tax rebate : Italian "€80 tax bonus"
Neri, Andrea; Rondinelli, Concetta; Scoccianti, Filippo - 2017
We estimate the consumption response of Italian households to the "Euro80 tax bonus" intro-duced in 2014, using the panel component on the Survey of Household Income and Wealth. We find that households that received the tax rebate increased their monthly consumption of food and means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719931
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2018
an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by … about 4 to 5 percentage points. At low levels of food expenditure, we observe a shift towards a more nutritious diet as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865448
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Spending effects of child-related fiscal transfers
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Lewis, Vivien; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2022
As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268076
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The Covid-19 crisis and consumption : survey evidence from six EU countries
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Jappelli, … - 2020
Using new panel data from a representative survey of households in the six largest euro area economies, the paper estimates the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on consumption. The panel provides, each month, household-specific indicators of the concern about finances due to Covid-19 from the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390462
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Household spending and fiscal support during theCOVID-19 pandemic : insights from a new consumer survey
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Kenny, Geoff - 2022
This paper introduces the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), a new online, high frequency panel survey of euro area consumers' expectations and behaviour. The paper also investigates whether public perceptions about fiscal support measures introduced during the pandemic have influenced spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818792
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MPCs in an economic crisis : spending, saving and private transfers
Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - In: Journal of public economics plus 2 (2021), pp. 1-13
MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020 using receipt of a hypothetical unanticipated, one-time income payment. Reported MPCs are modest, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800437
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MPCs in an economic crisis : spending, saving and private transfers
Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - 2021
MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020 using receipt of a hypothetical unanticipated, one-time income payment. Reported MPCs are modest, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612848