NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, and John Sabelhaus, editors

Conference held December 2-3, 2011
Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth


The following chapters are preliminary drafts unless otherwise noted. They have not yet been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as individual chapters are revised.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Christopher Carroll, Thomas Crossley, John Sabelhaus (bibliographic info)
1. Understanding the Relationship: CE Survey and PCE: William Passero, Thesia I. Garner, Clinton McCully (bibliographic info) (download)
2. Constructing a PCE-Weighted Consumer Price Index: Caitlin Blair (bibliographic info) (download)
3. Micro and Macro Validation of the Consumer Expenditure Survey: Adam Bee, Bruce Meyer, James Sullivan (bibliographic info)
4. Examples of Combining Administrative Records and Survey Data in Validation Studies: Claus Thustrup Kreiner, David Dreyer Lassen, Soren Leth-Petersen (bibliographic info)
5. Judging the Quality of Survey Data by Comparison with “Truth” as Measured By Administrative Records: Evidence From Sweden: Ralph Koijen, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Roine Vestman (bibliographic info)
6. A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures across Countries using Differing Survey Methods: Garry Barrett, Peter Levell, Kevin Milligan (bibliographic info) (download)
7. Asking Households about Expenditures: What Have We Learned?: Thomas F. Crossley, Joachim K. Winter (bibliographic info) (download)
8. Wealth Dynamics and Active Saving at Older Ages: Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder (bibliographic info)
9. Estimating Expenditures without Expenditure Data: Christopher Carroll, Michael Palumbo (bibliographic info)
10. The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys: Andrew Leicester (bibliographic info)
11. High-Frequency Data on Total Household Spending: Evidence from Monthly ALP Surveys: Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder (bibliographic info)
12. Exploring the Feasibility of Implementing a Cash-Flow Reconciliation Approach in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey: Scott Fricker, Brandon Kopp, Nhien To (bibliographic info)
13. Measuring Household Spending and Payment Habits: The Role of "Typical" and "Specific" Time Frames in Survey Questions: Marco Angrisani, Arie Kapteyn (bibliographic info)
14. Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?: John Sabelhaus, David Johnson, Stephen Ash, David Swanson, Thesia Garner, John Greenlees, Steve Henderson (bibliographic info) (download)
15. Why Panel Data is Indispensable for Accurate Measurement of Consumption Expenditures: Jonathan Parker, Nicholas Souleles, Christopher Carroll (bibliographic info)
16. Measuring the Evolution of Inequality and Poverty with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and Alternative Data Sources: Orazio Attanasio, Erik Hurst, Luigi Pistaferri (bibliographic info)
17. Using the CE to Model Household Demand: Laura Blow, Valérie Lechene, Peter Levell (bibliographic info) (download)
 
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