John Muellbauer, Surprises in the Consumption Function, The Economic Journal, Vol. 93, Supplement: Conference Papers (1983), pp. 34-50 ...

Economic theories predict that age influences individuals' saving and consumption behaviour. Despite this, age structure effects are rarely controlled for in empirical consumption functions.

These differences in the policy evaluation have been subject to debates since the second half of the 1970s and have come to be known as the "consumption function controversy" between Keynesian and ...

This high “double” tax distorted all sorts of behavior–inducing heavy reliance on risky debt finance, for example–and likely caused more economic damage dollar-for-dollar than any other ...

After describing some basic concepts in behavioral economics, this paper reviews the growing literature that applies these concepts to the consumption of fruits and vegetables. A toolkit to increase ...