. We apply the estimator to the 2008 tax rebate and household consumption data, exploiting the randomized timing of … disbursements. We find a considerable degree of heterogeneity in MPCs, which varies by consumption good, and provide evidence on … results suggest that the partial equilibrium consumption response to the stimulus was twice as large as what is implied by …

income and consumption in panel data. I examine Blundell, Pistaferri and Preston (2008) as an important example for which … resolves the dissonance between the low partial consumption insurance estimates of Blundell, Pistaferri and Preston (2008) and …

Conventional estimators based on the consumption Euler equation, intensively used in studies of intertemporal … consumption behavior, produce biased estimates of the effect of children on the marginal utility of consumption if consumers face … children on the marginal utility of consumption. I estimate these bounds using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and find that …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …

capital ; consumption …

general panel date on total consumption from the intertemporal budget constraint. The distribution of consumption levels is … shown to closely match that estimated using the UK's household budget survey. Consumption transitions over time are then …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …