We evaluate consumption and income measures of the material well-being of the poor. We begin with conceptual and … pragmatic reasons that favor income or consumption. Then, we empirically examine the quality of standard data by studying … aggregates. We also compare low reports of income and consumption to other measures of hardship and well-being. The closer link …

pharmaceutical products are beneficial, they will attract greater consumption and promote better health, e.g. greater longevity. We … ask how market size measured by condition prevalence affects consumption and longevity. We document in condition cross …

This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys … Consumer Expenditure Survey, a survey that also provides detailed information on consumption. The advantage of this approach is … that it gives us measures of consumption and leisure at the family level within a single data source. We find that leisure …

consumption of these medications …

-signaling can potentially crowd out the effect of consumption utility on choices. Two large-scale, randomized controlled field …

, for example. This article focuses on two broader tools: consumption smoothing in anticipation of future losses, and …

rate is low, automatable and non-automatable goods are more substitutable in consumption, and when traditional capital is a …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable …

have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure … points of that decline occurring since 1980. Consumption poverty suggests considerably greater improvement than income … is likely to explain some of the most noticeable differences between changes in income and consumption poverty, but …