targeting household consumption and debt and might lead to regressive redistribution from low- to high …

targeting household consumption and debt and might lead to regressive redistribution from low- to high …

-44 year-old winning; (iii) losses were quite uniform across consumption quantiles because rigid rents served as a hedge for …

consumption is stronger for poorer and younger people, and income inequality stimulates more education investment, which are …Using the Chinese urban household survey data between 1997 and 2006, we find that income inequality has a negative … (positive) impact on households' consumption (savings), even after we control for family income. We argue that people save to …

Consumption taxes are often considered as the most anti-redistributive component of the tax system. Yet, very few … estimates, and fewer international comparisons of the redistributive impact of consumption taxes exist in the literature, due to … the regressivity of consumption taxes for a large panel of countries and years. We propose a new method for imputing …