Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across … households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different … households. In this paper, we measure the degree of inequality in inflation across U.S. households for the period 1987-2001.Our …

unequal levels of inflation faced by different households. In this paper we measure the degree of inequality in inflation … sample period there are substantial differences in the inflation experiences across U.S. households. We find that the cost of …, when looking at the whole population, we find that individual households that are confronted with high inflation in one …

Inflation rates differ across households depending on their sociodemographic characteristics. This paper calculates the … inflation rates experienced by income quintiles in the US, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK between 2001 and … 2021. The results indicate substantial inflation inequality between quintiles. Households with lower income experienced …