eprintid: 15166
rev_number: 29
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Attanasio, O.
creators_name: Battistin, E.
creators_name: Ichimura, H.
creators_id: OPATT42
creators_id: HICHI25
title: What really happened to consumption inequality in the US?
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
keywords: JEL classification: E21, E26
abstract: This paper considers data quality issues for the analysis of consumption inequality exploiting two complementary datasets from the Consumer Expenditure Survey for the United States. The Interview sample follows survey households over four calendar quarters and consists of retrospectively collected information about monthly expenditures on durable and non-durable goods. The Diary sample interviews household for two consecutive weeks and includes detailed information about frequently purchased items (food, personal cares and household supplies). Most reliable information from each sample is exploited to derive a correction for the measurement error affecting observed measures of consumption inequality in the two surveys. We find that consumption inequality, as measured by the standard deviation of log non-durable consumption, has increased by roughly 5% points during the 1990s.
date: 2004-03
publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
official_url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10338
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Attanasio, O
lyricists_id: OPATT42
full_text_status: public
series: NBER Working Papers
number: 10338
place_of_pub: Cambridge, US
citation:        Attanasio, O.;    Battistin, E.;    Ichimura, H.;      (2004)    What really happened to consumption inequality in the US?                    (NBER Working Papers  10338). National Bureau of Economic Research: Cambridge, US.       Green open access   
 
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