What really happened to consumption inequality in the us?
By: Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Hidehiko Ichimura.
Contributors: Battistin, Erich.; Ichimura, Hidehiko.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10338; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10338.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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