This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in … consumption inequality did not increase much over this period. Our results support the view that many permanent changes in income …Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of …

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

consumption and that the shocks we analyze reduce consumption inequality on impact. …This paper sheds new light on the interactions between business cycles and the consumption distribution. We use … Consumer Expenditure Survey data and a factor model to characterize the cyclical dynamics of the consumption distribution. We …

Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United …