This paper considers how monetary policy produces heterogeneous effects on euro area
households, depending on the composition of their income and on the components of their …

We use the responses of a representative sample of Dutch households to survey questions
that ask how much their consumption would change in response to unexpected, transitory …

We use survey questions about spending in hypothetical scenarios to investigate features of
propensities to consume that are useful for distinguishing between consumption theories …

This chapter reviews the literature on the consumer psychology of taxes. We begin with a
discussion of consumers' attitudes toward taxes and how they influence decisions to comply …

In this study, we provide both theoretical and empirical evidence on the determinants of
household loan delinquency for home ownership, credit card and auto loans for the US …

Balance-sheet repair drove the response of a significant fraction of households to fiscal
stimulus following the Great Recession. By combining survey, behavioral, and time-series …

Using data on over 57,000 low-income tax filers, we estimate the effect of Medicaid access
on the propensity of households to save or repay debt from their tax refunds. We instrument …

1 Source: Internal Revenue Service (January 2018). Statistics for Tax Returns with EITC.
Retrieved from: https://www. eitc. irs. gov/eitc-central/statistics-for-tax-returns-with …

I show that if it is costly for households to process information about asset returns, a model
with ex-ante identical households features persistent inequality. The steady state has a two …

Evidence from the cognitive sciences suggests that some choices are conscious and reflect
individual volition, while others tend to be automatic. Under these circumstances, standard …