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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …
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A meta-analysis of US food demand elasticities to detect the impacts of scanner data
Jeon, Younghyeon; Hoang, Hoa; Thompson, Wyatt; Abler, … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 46 (2024) 2, pp. 760-780
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We find that the magnitudes of the elasticity estimates are statistically …
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Scarred consumption
Malmendier, Ulrike; Shen, Leslie Sheng - 2019
We show that prior lifetime experiences can "scar" consumers. Consumers who have lived through times of high unemployment exhibit persistent pessimism about their future financial situation and spend significantly less, controlling for the standard life-cycle consumption factors, even though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126124
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Heterogeneity in Food Expenditure amongst US families : Evidence from Longitudinal Quantile Regression
Gupta, Arjun; mirghasemi, soudeh; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad - 2020
Empirical studies on food expenditure are largely based on cross-section data and for a few studies based on longitudinal (or panel) data the focus has been on the conditional mean. While the former, by construction, cannot model the dependencies between observations across time, the latter...
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Segmenting U.S. Consumers by Food Waste Attitudes and Behaviors : Opportunities for Targeting Reduction Interventions
Li, Ran; Roe, Brian E. - 2023
Reducing food waste in households can be accomplished by changing several types of behavior (e.g., meal planning, food shopping, food storage, food preparation, leftover management) and by leveraging several sources of consumer motivation (financial, environmental, norm adherence). Interventions...
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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades
Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006
inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. … experiencing the largest increases. Lastly, we document a growing "inequality" in leisure that is the mirror image of the growing …
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Parting with "blue monday" : preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
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Spousal Bargaining Power and Consumption of Married Couples in the US : Evidence from Scanner Data
Ahn, So Yoon; Koh, Yu Kyung - 2022
This paper studies how spousal bargaining power affects consumption patterns of married households in the US, using a detailed barcode-level dataset. We use two distribution factors as proxies for spousal bargaining power: (1) spouses’ relative education and (2) spouses’ relative potential...
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Identification of random resource shares in collective households without preference similarity restrictions
Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - 2017
for assessing individual material well-being, inequality and poverty. They are difficult to identify because consumption …
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