The retirement consumption conundrum: Evidence from a consumption survey

Jonathan Fisher, David S. Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding and Barbara Boyle Torrey

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, issue 3, 482-485

Abstract: Recent studies have shown that food consumption declines at retirement. We use broader definitions of consumption from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and find that the so-called retirement consumption puzzle is solved by using comprehensive consumption data.

Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (48)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165-1765(07)00358-8
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: The Retirement Consumption Conundrum: Evidence from a Consumption Survey (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:99:y:2008:i:3:p:482-485

Access Statistics for this article

Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office

More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().