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Schulz, Jan; Mayerhoffer, Daniel M. - 2021

The nexus between debt and inequality has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the wake of the global … financial crisis. One prominent candidate to explain the striking co-evolution of income inequality and private debt in this …

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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...

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Targeted interventions : consumption dynamics and distributional effects

Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Mishra, Abinash; Mohaghegh, Mohsen - 2021

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Borrowing to keep up (with the joneses) : inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption

Banuri, Sheheryar; Nguyen, Ha - 2020

The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …

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"Relative concerns for consumption at the top" : an intertemporal analysis for the UK

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Wohlfart, Johannes - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 129 (2016), pp. 172-194

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Does consumption inequality mirror wealth inequality in the survey of consumer finances?

Abbott, Brant; Brace, Robin - 2020 - This draft: March 16, 2020

A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … increases in wealth inequality have passed through to consumption. Repeating this exercise in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics …

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Signaling status : the impact of relative income on household consumption and financial decisions

Bricker, Jesse; Krimmel, Jacob; Ramcharan, Rodney - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 4, pp. 1993-2009

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Has consumption inequality mirrored wealth inequality in the survey of consumer finances?

Abbott, Brant; Brace, Robin - In: Economics letters 193 (2020), pp. 1-3

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Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth

Fisher, Jonathan; Johnson, David S.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - In: Journal of macroeconomics 65 (2020), pp. 1-14

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Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption and wealth

Fisher, Jonathan; Johnson, David S.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 2019 - This version: February 2019

Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income, consumption, and wealth inequality and …-wealth households cannot smooth consumption as much as other households do, which further implies that increasing wealth inequality …

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