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Consumption Insurance or Consumption Mobility? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The theory of full consumption insurance posits that households are insulated from all idiosyncratic shocks so that the ratio of the marginal utilities of consumption of any two households is constant over time.
Luigi Pistaferri, Tullio Jappelli
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Principles and Design Scenarios for Sustainable Urban Food Logistics

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Food and nutrition systems are linked to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which makes their transition toward social-ecological behavior patterns crucial for an overarching sustainability transformation.
Christoph Tochtrop   +7 more
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New Approaches to the Study of Social Inclusion of Poor Children and Youth

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
This thematic issue seeks to bring the field of science on poverty and social inclusion/exclusion of children and youth beyond the state‐of‐the‐art, empirically, theoretically, and methodologically.
Anita Borch, Kirsi Laitala
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Consumption and Children [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2009
Abstract Consumption by couples rises sharply in the beginning and falls later in life; the causes of the early rise are hotly contested. Among the suggestions are rule of thumb behavior, demographics, liquidity constraints, the precautionary motive, and nonseparabilities between consumption and labor supply.
Browning, Martin, Ejrnæs, Mette
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Consumption [PDF]

open access: yes
Macroeconomic research on consumption has been influenced profoundly by rational expectations. First, rational expectations together with the hypothesis of constant expected real interest rates implies that consumption should evolve as a random walk ...
Robert E. Hall
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The Impact of Optimism and Internal Locus of Control on Workers’ Well-Being, A Multi-Group Model Analysis before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis led to changes in different areas of workers’ lives, as well as repercussions in stress management, social relationships, and perception of personal and professional growth.
Valeria Micheletto   +5 more
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On the arbitrariness of consumption [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Economics Letters, 2009
We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of partners are unknown, will be accepted.
John Whalley, Shunming Zhang
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Coal Consumption Sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
La región Caribe tiene un rezago importante con respecto al resto del país en términos de cobertura y calidad de la educación. Este artículo tiene como objetivo proponer una serie de políticas que permitan dar un gran impulso al sistema de educación ...
Lipovets, Yana   +2 more
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Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences

open access: yesFibers, 2023
Textile fibers have become a major issue in the debate on sustainable fashion and clothing consumption. While consumers are encouraged to choose more sustainable and circular textile materials, studies have indicated that a reduction in production and ...
Anna Schytte Sigaard, Kirsi Laitala
doaj   +1 more source

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