Journal articles: 'Consumption (Economics) United States'

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Arora, Vipin, and Shuping Shi. "Energy consumption and economic growth in the United States." Applied Economics 48, no. 39 (March 2016): 3763–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1145347.

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Hines, James R. "Taxing Consumption and Other Sins." Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.21.1.49.

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Federal and state governments in the United States use income and payroll taxes as their primary tools to collect revenue. Relative to the United States, governments in the rest of the world rely much more heavily on taxing consumption. Heavy American reliance on income rather than consumption taxation has not served the U.S. economy well. The inefficiency associated with taxing the return to capital means that the tax system reduces investment in the United States and distorts intertemporal consumption by Americans. While the economic logic of consumption taxation is compelling even for a closed economy, it is even more powerful for an open economy exposed to the world capital market. Consumption taxes in the form of excises can be designed to help protect the environment and control other externalities. Excise taxes can also serve the function of more closely aligning tax burdens with the benefits that taxpayers receive from certain government services. Understandable concerns arise about the distributional consequences of consumption taxation, but a system that relies heavily on consumption taxes, particularly if accompanied by an income tax, can be as progressive as any income tax the United States would realistically want to adopt.

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Demery, David, and Nigel W. Dick. "Imperfect Information and Consumption in the United States and the United Kingdom." Economica 66, no. 263 (August 1999): 375–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0335.00176.

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DeLeire, Thomas, and Ariel Kalil. "Does consumption buy happiness? Evidence from the United States." International Review of Economics 57, no. 2 (March 19, 2010): 163–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12232-010-0093-6.

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Connelly, Richard T., Rajeev K. Goel, and Rati Ram. "Income inequality and cigarette consumption: evidence from the United States." Applied Economics Letters 17, no. 5 (March 15, 2010): 423–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504850701765135.

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Bokhari, Sheharyar, and David Geltner. "Commercial Buildings Capital Consumption and the United States National Accounts." Review of Income and Wealth 65, no. 3 (April 30, 2018): 561–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12357.

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Slesnick, Daniel T. "Aggregate Consumption and Saving in the Postwar United States." Review of Economics and Statistics 74, no. 4 (November 1992): 585. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2109372.

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Jacobs, Jan P. A. M., Jenny E. Ligthart, and Hendrik Vrijburg. "Consumption tax competition among governments: Evidence from the United States." International Tax and Public Finance 17, no. 3 (June 24, 2009): 271–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10797-009-9118-z.

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Wolff, Edward N., Ajit Zacharias, and Asena Caner. "Household wealth, public consumption and economic well-being in the United States." Cambridge Journal of Economics 29, no. 6 (November 1, 2005): 1073–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bei076.

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Witkowski, Terrence H., and Sabine Reddy. "Antecedents of ethical consumption activities in Germany and the United States." Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ) 18, no. 1 (February 2010): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ausmj.2009.10.011.

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Altig, David, Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters, and Jan Walliser. "Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the United States." American Economic Review 91, no. 3 (June 1, 2001): 574–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.3.574.

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This paper uses a new, large-scale, dynamic life-cycle simulation model to compare the welfare and macroeconomic effects of transitions to five fundamental alternatives to the U.S. federal income tax, including a proportional consumption tax and a flat tax. The model incorporates intragenerational heterogeneity and a detailed specification of alternative tax systems. Simulation results project significant long-run increases in output for some reforms. For other reforms, namely those that seek to insulate the poor and initial older generations from adverse welfare changes, long-run output gains are modest. (JEL H20, C68)

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Knittel, Christopher R. "Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.26.1.93.

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The United States consumes more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD high-income country—30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxembourg). The transportation sector accounts for 70 percent of U.S. oil consumption and 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Taking the externalities associated with high U.S. gasoline consumption as largely given, I focus on understanding the policy tools that seek to reduce this consumption. I consider four main channels through which reductions in U.S. oil consumption might take place: 1) increased fuel economy of existing vehicles, 2) increased use of non-petroleum-based, low-carbon fuels, 3) alternatives to the internal combustion engine, and 4) reduced vehicle miles traveled. I then discuss how these policies for reducing petroleum consumption compare with the standard economics prescription for using a Pigouvian tax to deal with externalities. Taking into account that energy taxes are a political hot button in the United States, and also considering some evidence that consumers may not “correctly” value fuel economy, I offer some thoughts about the margins on which policy aimed at reducing petroleum consumption might usefully proceed.

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Patterson, Kerry D., and Bahram Pesaran. "The Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution in Consumption in the United States and the United Kingdom." Review of Economics and Statistics 74, no. 4 (November 1992): 573. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2109371.

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Darby, Julia, and Jim Malley. "FISCAL POLICY AND AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE UNITED STATES." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 43, no. 2 (May 1996): 129–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1996.tb00669.x.

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Parker, Jonathan A., and Bruce Preston. "Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations." American Economic Review 95, no. 4 (August 1, 2005): 1119–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/0002828054825556.

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This paper uses the consumption Euler equation to derive a decomposition of consumption growth into four sources. These four sources are new information, and three sources of predictable consumption growth: intertemporal substitution, changes in the preferences for consumption, and incomplete markets for consumption insurance. Using household-level data, we implement this decomposition for the average growth rate of consumption expenditures on nondurable goods in the United States from 1982 to 1997. The economic importance of precautionary saving rivals that of the real interest rate, but the relative importance of each source of movement in the volatility of consumption is not precisely measured.

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Yao, Shujie, Dan Luo, and Tyler Rooker. "Energy Efficiency and Economic Development in China." Asian Economic Papers 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 99–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00147.

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China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on the consumption of energy, raw materials, and electricity. In 2010, China's GDP was approximately 40 percent of the United States' GDP, yet it was the world's largest polluter and the biggest consumer of energy and electricity. This implies that the energy efficiency of the Chinese economy measured by energy consumption per unit of GDP is about one-third of that of the United States and one-fourth that of the EU and Japan. If the Chinese economy continues to grow as fast as it has in the past, without changing its structure and improving energy efficiency, China's growth will cause severe damage to the global environment. This paper analyzes the evolution of energy efficiency in the Chinese economy and stresses the importance of transforming China's economic structure.

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Attanasio, Orazio, and Luigi Pistaferri. "Consumption Inequality over the Last Half Century: Some Evidence Using the New PSID Consumption Measure." American Economic Review 104, no. 5 (May 1, 2014): 122–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.5.122.

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This paper contributes to the debate regarding trends in consumption inequality in the United States. We present a new measure of consumption inequality based on the redesigned 1999-2011 PSID. We impute consumption to the families observed before 1999 using the more comprehensive consumption data available from 1999 onward. One advantage of this procedure is in sample verification of the quality of the imputation procedure; another is that it yields a long time series (1967-2010). Consumption inequality was stable in the 1970s, as was income inequality. It increased significantly after 1980. The Great Recession was associated with a decline in consumption inequality.

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Temin, Peter. "Socialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany." Journal of Economic History 50, no. 2 (June 1990): 297–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700036445.

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The sustained unemployment in the United States during the recovery from the Great Depression has proved difficult to explain, as has the rapid elimination of unemployment in Germany. I argue that employment in the United States was restricted by high wages, which government policy raised above the level of efficiency wages. Socialist control and military expansion by the Nazis reduced unemployment, but also held down consumption.

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Barros, A. R. "SUGAR PRICES AND HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP CONSUMPTION IN THE UNITED STATES." Journal of Agricultural Economics 43, no. 1 (January 1992): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.1992.tb00199.x.

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Bitler, Marianne P., and Arian Seifoddini. "Health Impacts of Food Assistance: Evidence from the United States." Annual Review of Resource Economics 11, no. 1 (October 5, 2019): 261–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093823.

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This review focuses on the health and nutrition impacts of food assistance programs. We focus particular attention on the United States, both because of the plethora of types of programs and associated variation and because spending on these programs is a large share of the nonmedical safety net there. We begin by reviewing the theoretical predictions concerning health and nutrition effects of these programs, also paying attention to potential mediators such as education and income. We then discuss program eligibility and size, both as caseload and in terms of spending. We next touch on identifying causal variation and opportunities for further research. The review concludes by discussing the existing literature in five broad areas: take-up and use of the programs; effects on nutrition and food consumption; other immediate effects on short-run health; impacts on other contemporaneous outcomes such as income and labor supply; and longer-run health and nutrition effects.

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Banks, James, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell, and James P. Smith. "Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the United States and the United Kingdom: Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 27–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20170182.

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This paper documents significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures at older ages in the United Kingdom compared to the United States, in spite of income paths being similar. Several possible causes are explored, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of-pocket medical expenditures. Among all the potential explanations considered, those relating to levels and age paths in medical expenses and medical expenditure risk— can fully account for the steeper declines in nondurable consumption in the United Kingdom compared to the United States. (JEL D14, D15, I11, J14)

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Krueger, Kurt V. "Personal Consumption and Single Persons: A Reply to Thomas Ireland." Journal of Forensic Economics 23, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5085/0898-5510-23.2.195.

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Abstract In a recent JFE article, I presented five empirical approaches to identify the personal consumption of earnings made by single persons. I stated that forensic economic estimates of earnings minus personal consumption are relevant to, but do not define, the awardable financial support damages to survivors or estates under the various wrongful death laws in the United States. In a comment on my article, Thomas Ireland has stated that the role of forensic economic evaluation is to only estimate how much financial support single decedents would actually have provided to statutory survivors—which he states is often zero. I present several arguments and facts to show that Ireland's criticisms and concerns are unsupportable.

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Zhou, Min, and Xiangyi Li. "Cross-space Consumption among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States." Sociology of Development 2, no. 2 (2016): 158–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sod.2016.2.2.158.

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We consider cross-space consumption as a form of transnational practice among international migrants. In this paper, we develop the idea of the social value of consumption and use it to explain this particular form of transnationalism. We consider the act of consumption to have not only functional value that satisfies material needs but also a set of nonfunctional values, social value included, that confer symbolic meanings and social status. We argue that cross-space consumption enables international migrants to take advantage of differences in economic development, currency exchange rates, and social structures between countries of destination and origin to maximize their expression of social status and to perform or regain social status. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic study of consumption patterns in migrant hometowns in Fuzhou, China, and in-depth interviews with undocumented Chinese immigrants in New York and their left-behind family members, we find that, despite the vulnerabilities and precarious circumstances associated with the lack of citizenship rights in the host society, undocumented immigrants manage to realize the social value of consumption across national borders and do so through conspicuous consumption, reciprocal consumption, and vicarious consumption in their hometowns even without being physically present there. We conclude that, while cross-space consumption benefits individual migrants, left-behind families, and their hometowns, it serves to revive tradition in ways that fuel extravagant rituals, drive up costs of living, reinforce existing social inequality, and create pressure for continual emigration.

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Rotella, Elyce, and George Alter. "Working Class Debt in the Late Nineteenth Century United States." Journal of Family History 18, no. 2 (March 1993): 111–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/036319909301800204.

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Children's wages played a central role in family economic strategies in the late nineteenth century. The family budgets collected by the U.S. Commissioner of Labor in 1889-1890 show that life-cycle patterns of savings and debt varied by industry depending upon incomes from children. The consumption patterns of families whose expenditures exceeded their incomes do not show signs of economic distress, and most families whose annual budget was in deficit could expect larger contributions from children in the near future. These patterns suggest that families used borrowing and saving to smooth consumption over the life-cycle as the earning capacity of the family changed.

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Raynolds, Laura T. "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States." Economic Geography 83, no. 4 (February 16, 2009): 451–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00385.x.

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Conca, Ken. "Confronting Consumption." Global Environmental Politics 1, no. 3 (August 1, 2001): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152638001316881377.

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In affluent societies, evidence suggests that public concern and activism about “the consumption problem” is growing in many corners of everyday life—even in the paragon of the consumer society, the United States. These emerging concerns have an environmental dimension, but also embrace issues of community, work, meaning, freedom, and the overall quality of life. Yet the efforts of individuals, groups, and communities to confront consumption find little guidance or sympathy in policy-making, environmental, or academic circles—arenas dominated, perhaps as never before, by a deeply seated economistic reasoning and a politics of the sanctity of growth. Given our dissatisfaction with fragmentary approaches to consumption and its externalities, we highlight the elements of a provisional framework for confronting consumption in a more integrated fashion. We stress in particular the social embeddedness of consumption, the material and power-based linkages along commodity chains of resource use, and the hidden forms of consumption embedded in all stages of economic activity.

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Fisher, Jonathan D., David S. Johnson, and Timothy M. Smeeding. "Measuring the Trends in Inequality of Individuals and Families: Income and Consumption." American Economic Review 103, no. 3 (May 1, 2013): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.184.

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We present evidence on the level of and trend in inequality from 1985-2010 in the United States, using disposable income and consumption for a sample of individuals from the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey. Differing from the findings in other recent research, we find that the trends in income and consumption inequality are broadly similar between 1985 and 2006, but diverge during the Great Recession with consumption inequality decreasing and income inequality increasing. Given the differences in the trends in inequality in the last four years, using both income and consumption provides useful information.

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Shuquan, He, and Matukorn Bu-iad. "Economic factors affecting Thailand’s frozen shrimp export volume to the United States and Japan." Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks 4, no. 4 (2020): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/fmir.4(4).66-74.2020.

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A Study of Economic Factors Affecting Thailand’s Frozen Shrimp Export Volume to the United States and Japan which hypothesized that there are economic factors that affect the quantity of frozen shrimp exports from Thailand to the United States, namely the Manufacturing Production Index classified by production activity, Frozen Seafood (MPI), Domestic Wholesale Shrimp Price (PRIshrimp), United States Gross Domestic Product (GDPU.S.A.), Per Capita Income of US Population (PCIU.S.A.), Rate Of Change In Private Consumption And Consumption Expenditures Of The US Private Sector (PCEU.S.A.) and assumed that there are economic factors affecting the quantity of frozen shrimp exports to Japan, namely the Manufacturing Production Index classified by production activity, Frozen Seafood Category (MPI), Domestic Wholesale Shrimp Price (PRIshrimp) , Japan Gross Domestic Product (GDPJapan), Per Capita Income Of Japanese Population (PCIJapan), Rate Of Change In Private Consumption And Consumption Expenditures Of The Japanese Private Sector (PCEJapan) which are consistent with the research of Pathumnakul, S., Khamjan, S., & Piewthongngam, K. (2007). Will use secondary data by collecting data on a monthly basis from January 2017 to December 2019 with the analysis of complex regression equations. By the least-squares estimation method, the study found that the economic factors affecting frozen shrimp export volume of Thailand to the United States in the same direction are manufacturing production index classified by production activity, frozen seafood category, wholesale shrimp prices in the country, the gross domestic product of USA, income per capita of the United States population and rate of change in US private consumption expenditure has no effect on the export volume of frozen shrimp from Thailand to the United States. For economic factors affecting the frozen shrimp export volume of Thailand to Japan in the same direction is statistically significant, the manufacturing production index classified by production activity, frozen seafood category, wholesale shrimp prices in the country, the gross domestic product of Japan, income per capita of the Japanese population and the rate of change in Japanese private consumption expenditure has no effect on the export volume of frozen shrimp from Thailand to Japan. Keywords: economic factors, frozen shrimp, export volume.

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Mian, Atif, Kamalesh Rao, and Amir Sufi. "Household Balance Sheets, Consumption, and the Economic Slump*." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 4 (September 20, 2013): 1687–726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjt020.

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Abstract We investigate the consumption consequences of the 2006–9 housing collapse using the highly unequal geographic distribution of wealth losses across the United States. We estimate a large elasticity of consumption with respect to housing net worth of 0.6 to 0.8, which soundly rejects the hypothesis of full consumption risk-sharing. The average marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of housing wealth is 5–7 cents with substantial heterogeneity across ZIP codes. ZIP codes with poorer and more levered households have a significantly higher MPC out of housing wealth. In line with the MPC result, ZIP codes experiencing larger wealth losses, particularly those with poorer and more levered households, experience a larger reduction in credit limits, refinancing likelihood, and credit scores. Our findings highlight the role of debt and the geographic distribution of wealth shocks in explaining the large and unequal decline in consumption from 2006 to 2009.

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Wu, Ya, Qianwen Zhu, Ling Zhong, and Tao Zhang. "Energy consumption in the transportation sectors in China and the United States: A longitudinal comparative study." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 51 (December 2019): 349–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2018.12.003.

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Rushforth, Richard R., and Benjamin L. Ruddell. "A spatially detailed blue water footprint of the United States economy." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22, no. 5 (May 22, 2018): 3007–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3007-2018.

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Abstract. This paper quantifies and maps a spatially detailed and economically complete blue water footprint for the United States, utilizing the National Water Economy Database version 1.1 (NWED). NWED utilizes multiple mesoscale (county-level) federal data resources from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the US Department of Transportation (USDOT), the US Department of Energy (USDOE), and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to quantify water use, economic trade, and commodity flows to construct this water footprint. Results corroborate previous studies in both the magnitude of the US water footprint (F) and in the observed pattern of virtual water flows. Four virtual water accounting scenarios were developed with minimum (Min), median (Med), and maximum (Max) consumptive use scenarios and a withdrawal-based scenario. The median water footprint (FCUMed) of the US is 181 966 Mm3 (FWithdrawal: 400 844 Mm3; FCUMax: 222 144 Mm3; FCUMin: 61 117 Mm3) and the median per capita water footprint (FCUMed′) of the US is 589 m3 per capita (FWithdrawal′: 1298 m3 per capita; FCUMax′: 720 m3 per capita; FCUMin′: 198 m3 per capita). The US hydroeconomic network is centered on cities. Approximately 58 % of US water consumption is for direct and indirect use by cities. Further, the water footprint of agriculture and livestock is 93 % of the total US blue water footprint, and is dominated by irrigated agriculture in the western US. The water footprint of the industrial, domestic, and power economic sectors is centered on population centers, while the water footprint of the mining sector is highly dependent on the location of mineral resources. Owing to uncertainty in consumptive use coefficients alone, the mesoscale blue water footprint uncertainty ranges from 63 to over 99 % depending on location. Harmonized region-specific, economic-sector-specific consumption coefficients are necessary to reduce water footprint uncertainties and to better understand the human economy's water use impact on the hydrosphere.

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Forrester, Kellie. "HOME TO MARKET: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONSUMPTION TO OUTPUT RATIO." Macroeconomic Dynamics 23, no. 1 (July 27, 2017): 448–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100517000025.

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The United States' postwar period has seen an increase in aggregate market hours worked, a decline in home production hours, and an increase in the consumption to output ratio. A multisector growth model that allows for an increase in total factor productivity in the market sector relative to the home sector can account for these phenomena. Households shift hours to the more productive market sector and purchase measured market goods in favor of unmeasured home goods. This channel accounts for a quarter of the increase in the consumption to output ratio observed in the data from 1950 to 2007.

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Yen, Steven T., and Shew-Jiuan Su. "Modeling U.S. Butter Consumption with Zero Observations." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 24, no. 1 (April 1995): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1068280500003609.

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A heteroscedastic double-hurdle model is used to investigate household butter consumption in the United States. Results suggest that failure to incorporate heteroscedastic errors may lead to unreliable elasticity estimates. Decomposition of the effects of variables leads to insightful information and makes the double-hurdle model a more useful tool in micro demand analysis. Larger and higher-income households are more likely to consume butter than others and also consume more, but income elasticity is very small. Age, region, and seasonality are among the other significant determinants of household butter consumption.

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Abdel-Ghany, Mohamed, and F. N. Schwenk. "Differences in consumption patterns of single-parent and two-parent families in the United States." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 14, no. 4 (1993): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01013982.

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Loužek, Marek. "100 Years since the Birth of Milton Friedman." Review of Economic Perspectives 12, no. 3 (October 1, 2012): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10135-012-0008-4.

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Abstract The paper deals with the economic theory of Milton Friedman. Its first part outlines the life of Milton Friedman. The second part examines his economic theories - “Essays in Positive Economics” (1953), “Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money“ (1956), “A Theory of the Consumption Function” (1957), “A Program for Monetary Stability” (1959), “A Monetary History of the United States 1897 to 1960” (1963), and “Price Theory” (1976). His Nobel Prize lecture and American Economic Association lecture in 1967 are discussed, too. The third part analyzes Friedman’s methodology. Milton Friedman was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.

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Burinskienė, Aurelija, Edita Leonavičienė, Virginija Grybaitė, Olga Lingaitienė, and Juozas Merkevičius. "Core Elements Affecting Sharing: Evidence from the United States." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (April 2, 2021): 3943. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13073943.

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The new phenomenon called sharing or collaborative consumption emerged a decade ago and is continuously growing. It creates new possibilities for society, and especially for business, is beneficial for the environment, makes more efficient use of resources, and presents a new competitive business model. The scientific literature lacks a more in-depth analysis of the factors influencing sharing activity growth; therefore, the paper’s authors attempt to fill this gap. The authors aim to identify the factors affecting the use of sharing platforms. To reach the goal, the authors developed a regression model and constructed a list of 71 variables. The study used monthly United States data from January 2017 to June 2020 from the publicly available Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)and Google trends databases. The comparison to other indexes proves that the proposed index, representing the number of visits to sharing platforms (SEP), is a unique one. The first index allowed us to revise the sharing activity monthly. The authors identified that variables such as wage level, social network users, import level, and personal consumption are critical in affecting the number of visits to sharing platforms. The presented framework could be helpful for practitioners and policymakers analysing the stimulation of sharing or collaborative consumption. It includes indicators representing different areas, such as society, technology, and country, and allows for monthly investigations. Such activity was evident for a long time when online platforms contributed to its wider accessibility. The results help to forecast the number of visits monthly. Sharing is still an emerging area for research; thus, the authors tried to explore the phenomenon of sharing to expand the conceptual level of knowledge.

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Shankar, Bhavani, C. S. Srinivasan, and Xavier Irz. "World Health Organization Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the United States, United Kingdom, and France." Review of Agricultural Economics 30, no. 1 (March 2008): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00397.x.

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Srinivasan, C. S. "Food consumption impacts of adherence to dietary norms in the United States: a quantitative assessment." Agricultural Economics 37, no. 2-3 (December 7, 2007): 249–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00271.x.

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ABDALLAH, CHADI S., and WILLIAM D. LASTRAPES. "Evidence on the Relationship between Housing and Consumption in the United States: A State-Level Analysis." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 45, no. 4 (May 17, 2013): 559–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12016.

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Rowe, John Carlos. "Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 118, no. 1 (January 2003): 78–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081203x59847.

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The term transnationalism is used frequently in reference to the rapid circulation of “capital, labor, technology, and media images” in the global economy governed by postindustrial capitalism (Sharpe 110). When incorporated into such phrases as transnational capitalism, the term implies a critical view of historically specific late modern or postmodern practices of globalizing production, marketing, distribution, and consumption for neocolonial ends. By the same token, transnationalism is often used to suggest counterhegemonic practices prompted by or accompanying the migrations and diasporas occasioned by these new economic processes of globalization. Thus, Homi Bhabha's privileging of “cultural hybridity” as a way to resist global homogenization is often traceable to his emphasis on “migrant workers,” who are “part of the massive economic and political diaspora of the modern world” and thus “embody […] that moment blasted out of the continuum of history” (8). If these new, exploited cosmopolitans experience every day their dislocation from the familiar boundaries of nation, first language, and citizenship, they may also be particularly able to comprehend how to negotiate transnational situations, even in some cases turning such circumstances to their advantage.

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Benhabib, Jess, and Bálint Szoőke. "Optimal Positive Capital Taxes at Interior Steady States." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 114–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.20180191.

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We generalize recent results of Bassetto and Benhabib (2006) and Straub and Werning (2019) in a neoclassical model with endogenous labor-leisure choice where all agents are allowed to save and accumulate capital. We provide a sufficient condition under which optimal redistributive capital taxes remain at their allowed upper bound forever, even if the resulting equilibrium trajectory converges to a unique steady state with positive and finite consumption, capital, and labor. We then provide an interpretation of our sufficient condition. Using recent evidence on wealth distribution in the United States, we argue that our sufficient condition is empirically plausible. (JEL D31, E21, H21, H23, H25, J22)

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Pastor, Daniel J., and Thomas M. Fullerton. "Municipal Water Consumption and Urban Economic Growth in El Paso." Water 12, no. 10 (September 23, 2020): 2656. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12102656.

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This study investigates the nexus between municipal water consumption and economic growth for El Paso, TX, USA. Located in the semi-arid southwestern United States, El Paso water consumption has been the subject of prior economic studies. However, the relationship between water consumption and economic growth has not been previously analyzed for El Paso or any other metropolitan economies in the region. Empirical results indicate that municipal water usage and real personal income are integrated of order one, but are not co-integrated. Given that, a vector autoregression model is estimated and a Granger causality test is performed. Estimation results show unidirectional causation from real income growth to water consumption, indicating that water conservation policies will not inhibit economic growth in this urban economy.

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Yen, Steven T., and Wen S. Chern. "Flexible Demand Systems with Serially Correlated Errors: Fat and Oil Consumption in the United States." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74, no. 3 (August 1992): 689–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242582.

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Bohr, Jeremiah, and Anna C. McCreery. "Do Energy Burdens Contribute to Economic Poverty in the United States? A Panel Analysis." Social Forces 99, no. 1 (November 15, 2019): 155–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz131.

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Abstract For many households, energy consumption represents a non-discretionary portion of their budget and directly relates to quality of life. As researchers continue to study the environmental impacts of energy behavior, it is important to explore how energy consumption relates to socio-economic wellbeing. This paper examines the economic impacts of being energy-burdened in the United States, defined as spending at least 10% of household income on heating and electricity services; energy burdens are partially, but not entirely, driven by income, since energy needs and costs can vary substantially due to housing characteristics, utility rates, and other factors. Using panel data of US household income and energy expenditures during 1999–2017, this analysis demonstrates that energy-burdened households were at about 150%–200% greater risk of transitioning into or extending the duration of economic poverty over a two-year timeframe relative to non-burdened households. This analysis indicates that dedicating inordinate amounts of income to energy services can threaten a household’s economic well-being over time, possibly by preventing a household from engaging in other economic activities or compounding existing economic hardship. These results emphasize the importance of energy assistance and energy efficiency for low-income households, drawing attention to how structures of energy consumption, the welfare state, and social stratification intertwine.

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Zhang, Xin Min, Kuang Cen, and Wan Li Xing. "Information Processing for Analysis of Consumption Flexibility of Global Natural Gas Demand." Applied Mechanics and Materials 707 (December 2014): 514–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.707.514.

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Gas consumption exist great regional difference, price and income are the main factors affecting consumption .Global gas consumption has slow growth, but the price in 2008 there was a twist. We analyze the global natural gas consumption and price points using the data from the BP. The level of economic development and natural gas reserves determine the differences in the levels of consumption. In order to eliminate the impact per unit, the regression model uses the data in the log. This paper studied the influence factors of natural gas consumption in North America using of consumer income elasticity and price elasticity. The results show that the gas consumption have a low income elasticity and price elasticity is higher .Law of "S" shape can explain the income elasticity is low, the reason is that the stage of economic development. Price elasticity is higher lies in the different between Canada and the United States, the United States is a net importer of natural gas, and Canada is a net exporter. Keywords: Consumption Flexibility; Natural Gas Demand; income; price

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Hicks, Daniel L. "Consumption Volatility, Marketization, and Expenditure in an Emerging Market Economy." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 7, no. 2 (April 1, 2015): 95–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.20120222.

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In response to income fluctuations, households smooth consumption by substituting between market expenditure and time inputs. This paper provides evidence of this substitution in the context of food consumption over transitory and permanent income fluctuations in Mexico. Household time investments drive a wedge between consumption and expenditure, amplifying measured expenditure volatility. Volatility decompositions for Mexico and the United States suggest that the extent of bias in expenditure-based measures induced by changes in marketization is relatively larger in the Mexican setting. These findings imply that volatility comparisons between commodities or across countries are misleading when consumption measures ignore home production. (JEL D12, D91, E21, E32, O11, O12)

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Hanson, J. D., John Hendrickson, and Dave Archer. "Challenges for maintaining sustainable agricultural systems in the United States." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 23, no. 04 (July 4, 2008): 325–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170507001974.

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AbstractDuring the 20th century, US agriculture underwent vast transformations. The number of farmers has decreased, more farmers are relying on off-farm income, agriculture's proportion of the US GDP has declined, and a minority of non-metro counties in the US are farming dependent. Agriculture's evolution will continue and we have identified key trends and future challenges to effectively manage our changing agricultural system. Eight current trends in US agriculture were identified. These included: (1) increased land degradation; (2) competing land uses; (3) focus on single ecosystem service; (4) increase in farm size; (5) movement toward commercialization; (6) genetic engineering; (7) global markets; and (8) changing social structure. Future trends likely to affect agriculture include: (1) diminishing and increasingly volatile farm incomes; (2) reduced government involvement in food regulation; (3) continued transition from farming to agribusiness; (4) land-use will become a major issue; (5) increasing animal protein consumption in the US; (6) increased public input on livestock production practices; (7) increasing urbanization of historically rural US counties; (8) increased public concern over food safety; (9) increased medicinal production from agriculture; (10) new tastes, markets and opportunities will emerge. We further postulated that future challenges facing US agriculture might include: (1) competitive pressures; (2) sustainable development; (3) resource conservation; and (4) research and development. Integrated agricultural systems may be flexible enough to address these challenges. However, robust principles will be needed to design adaptable integrated agricultural systems. We present a nonexclusive list of preliminary principles under the four general categories of (1) economics and economic policies; (2) environmental; (3) social and political; and (4) technological.

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Abdullah, Mohammad M. H., Jason P. H. Jones, and Peter J. H. Jones. "Economic benefits of the Mediterranean-style diet consumption in Canada and the United States." Food & Nutrition Research 59, no. 1 (January 2015): 27541. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/fnr.v59.27541.

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Almanie, S. A., and D. A. Holdford. "Economic impact of waste in Prescribing, Dispensing, and Medication consumption in the United States." Value in Health 18, no. 3 (May 2015): A81—A82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2015.03.476.

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CESUR, RESUL, and INAS RASHAD KELLY. "WHO PAYS THE BAR TAB? BEER CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES." Economic Inquiry 52, no. 1 (October 18, 2013): 477–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12048.

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