This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by … feast-related goods, indicating a "feast and famine" consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption … profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across …-shaped consumption age profiles. The main driver behind lifecycle consumption variations are lifecycle income changes, which display …

factors (sex, race, parents education, etc...) and lifetime outcomes (e.g. financial status, occupational prestige, perceived … evidence based on the differential impacts of gender and race on the blackness of a name and its popularity that suggest that …

This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank … revealed by gender-specific nicknames. We found that female participants are more reluctant to relinquish their current … relative rank when the persons ranked below and above them are of the opposite gender. This tendency was less pronounced in the …

actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …

resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance … gender imbalance. …