Handbook of US Consumer Economics

<p>1. Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Consumer: Fact, Fiction, and the Future<br>Benjamin Mandel<br>2. Trends in Household Debt and Credit<br>Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, Lauren Thomas and Wilbert van der Klaauw<br>3. Trends in Household Portfolio Composition<br>Jesse Bricker, Kevin B. Moore and Jeffrey Pierce Thompson<br>4. Household Debt and Recession in Brazil<br>Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi<br>5. Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market: Choosing between Alternative and Mainstream Credit<br>Sumit Agarwal and Marieke Bos<br>6. How do consumers respond to real income shocks?<br>Fiona Greig and Amar Hamoudi<br>7. Spending To and Through Retirement<br>Katherine Roy, Je Oh, Sharon Carson and Joseph Marlo<br>8. Are millennials different? <br>Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine<br>9. China’s Consumer Spending E-Commerce: Facts and Evidence from JD’s Festival Online Sales<br>Wei Tian, Yang Yang and Miaojie Yu<br>10. Consumer Expectations and the Macroeconomy<br>Giorgio Topa<br>11. Macro Forecasting Using Alternative Data<br>Apurv Jain<br>12. Regional price parities in the United States<br>Bettina Aten<br>13. Measuring Prices and Real Household Consumption of Medical Goods: Service based versus disease based approaches<br>Ralph Bradley and Brett Matsumoto<br>14. A Brief History of the Supplemental Poverty Measure<br>Thesia Garner and Liana Fox</p>