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Extreme Temperature, Adaptation Capacity, and Household Retail Consumption

Lee, Seunghoon; Zheng, Siqi - 2022

While the large cost of extreme temperature on production is well documented, little is known about its impact on consumption, a prevailing measure of welfare. Using high-frequency micro shopping data from U.S. households, we report that deviating from mild temperature negatively affects weekly...

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Households' response to the wealth effects of inflation

Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - 2023

We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...

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An Analytical Model to Characterize Consumption and Wastage of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in Household

Ganguly, Subhamoy; Robb, David - 2023

Food Loss and Waste (FLW) is a major problem for humanity, with a third of all food grown for human consumption being wasted. While FLW happens at every stage of the food supply chain, in developed economies, 40% of the wastage happens in households (FAO 2011). The extant literature identifies...

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Rising Temperature and Rural Household Consumption : Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Colombia

Prieto, Cristhian David; Noy, Ilan; Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2023

This paper examines the impact of rising temperature on rural household consumption in Colombia by combining high …-resolution gridded weather data with a rich longitudinal household survey. Our results show that a one-standard-deviation increase in the … average daily rainy months temperature significantly reduces rural household expenditure. By using very granual satellite …

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Rising Temperature and Rural Household Consumption Evidence From Longitudinal Data in Colombia

Prieto, Cristhian; Noy, Ilan; Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2023

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Consumption Patterns of Indebted Households : Unravelling the Relevance of Fiscal Policy

Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 2023

We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household … consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …

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