surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the … consumption measures remains an unmet challenge …

Consumption decisions are partly influenced by values and ideologies. Consumers care about global warming, child labor …, fair trade, etc. Incorporating values into the consumer’s utility function will often violate monotonicity, if consumption …

dissects the underlying causes of the depressing effect of the hukou system on migrant household consumption into two channels … found to contribute to the discrepancies in consumption between migrant and local urban households, among other factors. In …