, and total net worth) on consumption. The study uses longitudinal household-level data?from the Panel Study of Income …

In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for … a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the … questions on consumption asked to households participating in the survey and information on consumption collected in the …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …