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Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
- O. Attanasio, G. Weber
- Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 July 1994
In this paper we show that some of the predictions of models of consumer intertemporal optimization are in line with the patterns of nondurable expenditure observed in U.S. household-level data. We… Expand
Capital in the 21st Century
- A. G. Haldane, Rachana Shanbhogue, +4 authors J. Ventura
- Economics
- 13 March 2015
On 19 December 2014, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Bank of England hosted a discussion forum based around Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the twenty-first century, with a number… Expand
Consumption Growth, the Inter-est Rate and Aggregation
- O. Attanasio, G. Weber
- Economics
- 1 July 1993
In this paper we present empirical evidence on aggregation problems with Euler equations for consumption. Our main results are: estimates of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution for… Expand
Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model
- O. Attanasio, H. Low, Virginia Sánchez-Marcos
- Economics
- 1 July 2008
We study the life cycle labour force participation of three cohorts of American women: those born in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. We document the large shifts in labour supply behaviour among these… Expand
Trade Reforms and Wage Inequality in Colombia
- O. Attanasio, P. Goldberg, Nina Pavcnik
- Economics
- 1 August 2003
Book description: In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from… Expand
Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption
- O. Attanasio, S. Davis
- Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 June 1994
We analyze how relative wage movements among birth cohorts and education groups affected the distribution of household consumption and economic welfare. Our empirical work draws on the best available… Expand
Humps and Bumps in Lifetime Consumption
- O. Attanasio, J. Banks, C. Meghir, G. Weber
- Economics
- 1 November 1995
In this paper we argue that once one departs from the simple classroom example, or `stripped down life-cycle model,' the empirical model for consumption growth can be made flexible enough to fit the… Expand
Consumption Over the Life Cycle and Over the Business Cycle
- O. Attanasio, M. Browning
- Economics
- 1 September 1993
The main aim of this paper is to assess the validity of the life cycle model of consumption. In particular, we address an issue that has recently received much attention, especially in the… Expand
Booms and Busts: Consumption, House Prices and Expectations
- O. Attanasio, L. Blow, R. Hamiltonww, A. Leicester
- Economics
- 1 February 2009
Over much of the past 25 years, house price and consumption growth have been closely synchronized. Three main hypotheses for this have been proposed: increases in house prices raise household wealth… Expand
Tests of income pooling in household decisions
- O. Attanasio, V. Lechene
- Economics
- 1 October 2002
Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using a variety of outcomes. We exploit both the experimental nature and the (short) panel dimension of the data to… Expand