Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …

In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for … a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the … questions on consumption asked to households participating in the survey and information on consumption collected in the …

, and total net worth) on consumption. The study uses longitudinal household-level data?from the Panel Study of Income …

Through certainty equivalent consumption (CE) measures, we show that dispersion of current earnings, expenditures, and … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from … higher consumption, with most of the losses accruing after 2000. …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …