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Productivity Orientation and the Consumption of Collectable Experiences
By: Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz
This research examines why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing ice... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Performance Productivity
Keinan, Anat, and Ran Kivetz. "Productivity Orientation and the Consumption of Collectable Experiences." Journal of Consumer Research 37, no. 6 (April 2011). (Winner, 2011 Ferber Award. Finalist, 2014 Best Article Award for a paper published in JCR in 2011.)
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Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency
How do I find data on the energy consumption and energy efficiency? Domestic data sources: Current consumption & Efficiency -- by US Energy Information Administration (May notice FAQs by the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries
- 2012
- Article
Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
By: Joe Price and Jason Riis
Behavioral economics is an emerging paradigm that challenges the assumptions and predictions of classical economics. This new paradigm emphasizes that consumers do not always make optimal use of available information nor do they always make choices and tradeoffs in a... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Social Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Nutrition
Price, Joe, and Jason Riis. "Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption." Journal of Food Studies 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–13.
- 2017
- White Paper
The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption
By: Dafna Goor, Nailya Ordabayeva, Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
- Comment
American Consumption and the New Normal
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "American Consumption and the New Normal." Harvard Business Review Blogs (December 31, 2009).
- May 2018
- Article
Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries
By: Alberto Cavallo, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer
We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; International Economy; Online Prices; Billion Prices Project; Economics; Macroeconomics; Price; Internet and the Web; Spending; Economy; Global Range; Measurement and Metrics
Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer. "Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May 2018): 483–487.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households
By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government... View Details
Keywords: Bi-level Optimization; Optimal Subsidies; Public Policy; Food Policy; Central Planner; Government Administration; Poverty; Food; Nutrition
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 6053-19, November 2019.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance
By: Justin Katz
How do households adjust savings and consumption in response to liquidity from debt relief? I study this question using policy variation induced by federal student loan forbearance in the 2020 CARES Act and an individual-level panel of daily financial transactions
for... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Consumer Behavior; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Government Legislation
Katz, Justin. "Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance." SSRN Working Paper Series, January 2023.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment
By: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason Kotter
This paper uses transaction-level data across millions of accounts to identify cryptocurrency investors and evaluate how fluctuations in individual crypto wealth affect household consumption, equity investment, and local real estate markets. We estimate an MPC out of... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Household Balance Sheet; Real Estate; Etherium; Bitcoin; Investment; Housing; Spending
Aiello, Darren, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson, and Jason Kotter. "The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-077, June 2023.
Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption
Contributing to the burgeoning discourse on economic inequality, we expose an inequality in what the poor are socially permitted to buy. Across 11 experiments (n = 4,179), we demonstrate that lower-income individuals are held to more... View Details
- December 1982
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Determinants of Food Consumption in American Households
By: D. Schmalensee and J. Quelch
Schmalensee, D., and J. Quelch. "Determinants of Food Consumption in American Households." Marketing Science Institute, Report (December 1982). (Cambridge, Mass., Report 82:112.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption
By: Gunnar Trumbull
Trumbull, Gunnar. "Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption." Chap. 27 in The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson, 622–642. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- September 2002
- Article
Pricing and the Psychology of Consumption
By: John Gourville and Dilip Soman
Gourville, John, and Dilip Soman. "Pricing and the Psychology of Consumption." Harvard Business Review 80, no. 9 (September 2002).
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The Effects of Increased Serving Sizes on Consumption
By: Chris Hydock, Anne Wilson and Karthik Easwar
Hydock, Chris, Anne Wilson, and Karthik Easwar. "The Effects of Increased Serving Sizes on Consumption." Appetite 101 (June 2016): 71–79.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Binge is the New Black: Perceptions of Accelerated Consumption
By: Anne Wilson and Anat Keinan
- 12 May 2015
- News
Nail Salons And The High Cost Of Conspicuous Consumption
- 2019
- Working Paper
Status Pivoting: Coping with Status Threats through Motivated Trade-off Beliefs and Consumption across Domains
By: Dafna Goor, Anat Keinan and Nailya Ordabayeva
Prior research established that status threat leads consumers to display status-related products such as luxury brands. While compensatory consumption in the domain of the status threat (e.g., products associated with financial and professional success) is the most... View Details
Inviting Consumers to Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie Consumption
Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, an alternative approach was tested: activating consumers’ self-control by having servers... View Details