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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. Consumption insurance therefore implies absence of consumption mobility between any two time periods.
Jappelli, Tullio, Pistaferri, Luigi
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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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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 ...
Gubkina, V. V.   +2 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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Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance Antibiotic resistance, driven by antibiotic consumption, is a growing global health threat. Our report on antibiotic use in 76 countries over 16 years provides an up-to-date comprehensive assessment of global trends in antibiotic consumption.
E. Klein   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Call It Consumption! Re‐Conceptualizing Ecotourism as Consumption and Consumptive [PDF]

open access: yesGeography Compass, 2007
AbstractLabeling ecotourism as ‘non‐consumptive’ and contrasting it with direct uses of wildlife through activities such as hunting is common practice among organizations and academics primarily concerned with conservation. We interrogate this binary opposition by questioning the assumptions underlying it, namely that ‘the direct consumption of ...
Lisa M. Campbell, Zoë A. Meletis
openaire   +2 more sources

Government consumption and private consumption correlations [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of International Money and Finance, 1998
Abstract This paper examines whether the introduction of government consumption expenditure in a standard one good model of the international real business cycle is sufficient to reconcile the theory with the existing pattern of international consumption and output correlations.
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Advertising and Conspicuous Consumption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The paper formalizes the intuition that brands are consumed for image reasons and that advertising creates a brand’s image. The key idea is that advertising informs the public of brand names and creates the possibility of conspicuous consumption by ...
Krähmer, Daniel
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User Involvement of People with Mild Disabilities in Technology Innovations: Does It Make a Difference?

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
In this study, we explored the role of people with mild forms of visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive impairments in innovation processes. Our research questions are: do the product evaluations by people with mild disabilities differ from those given
Anita Borch, Pål Strandbakken
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