High inflation disproportionately hurts low-income households

Aparna Jayashankar and Anthony Murphy

Dallas Fed Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Abstract: Household survey results do not support Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent suggestion that low-income families “have actually been hurt less by inflation than families with higher incomes.”

Keywords: inflation; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01-10
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