Consumption Over the Life Cycle

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Jonathan Parker

Working papers from Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems

Abstract: This paper employs a synthetic cohort technique and Consumer Expenditure Survey data to construct average age-profiles of consumption and income over the working lives of typical households across different education and occupation groups.

Keywords: CONSUMPTION; INCOME (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C40 C42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 1997
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