Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household … households in our data, the average household wastes 31.9% of the food it buys, and this figure, using survey weights, translates …

cars. Moreover, we show that such beliefs also influence household expectations about own income prospects, future access … Ricardian effects in household behaviour. We find that perceptions affect spending also among households that did not receive …

This paper investigates the importance of status in household consumption and financial decisions using household data … evidence that a household's income rank — its position in the income distribution relative to its close neighbors — is … household's portfolio. More aggregate county-level evidence based on a dataset of every new car sold in each county in the …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

This paper analyzes the wealth effect on consumption in France by relying on two original household surveys. First, it … on household self-assessed changes in future consumption (survey PATER). Besides the direct wealth effect, our results …

spending from 2009 through 2012 that also allow us to control for household heterogeneity. We find that durables spending …