We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being measures disseminated by Gallup Analytics. We find...

The Japanese Consumer Price Index (CPI) is considered to be upwardly biased. This paper estimates the Engel curve based on National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure data to measure the bias. The estimated annual bias for the period 1989 to 2004 is 0.5 percentage points. Correcting the...

This study investigates consumption inequality in Japan over the last three decades using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). A number of scholars have argued that the consumption data in the FIES are biased, suggesting that respondents underreport spending on rarely...

The Japanese Consumer Price Index (CPI) is considered to be upwardly biased.This paper estimated the Engel curve based on National Survey of Family Incomeand Expenditure data to measure the bias. The estimated bias for the period 1989to 2004 was 0.53 percentage points per annum. Correcting the...