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. …

We provide evidence that the distributions of consumption, labor income, wealth, and capital income exhibit asymptotic … return heterogeneity lead to a mirror consumption concentration puzzle. We match the cross-sectional data on these four …