Replication data for: Consumption Inequality

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Orazio P. Attanasio; Luigi Pistaferri

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Project Citation: 

Attanasio, Orazio P., and Pistaferri, Luigi. Replication data for: Consumption Inequality. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113971V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary In this essay, we discuss the importance of consumption inequality in the debate concerning the measurement of disparities in economic well-being. We summarize the advantages and disadvantages of using consumption as opposed to income for measuring trends in economic well-being. We critically evaluate the available evidence on these trends, and in particular discuss how the literature has evolved in its assessment of whether consumption inequality has grown as much as or less than income inequality. We provide some novel evidence on three relatively unexplored themes: inequality in different spending components, inequality in leisure time, and intergenerational consumption mobility.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
      E21 Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion


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