Pandemic Consumption

Ruediger Bachmann, Christian Bayer and Martin Kornejew ()

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID- 19 infection risk during the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from September to November 2020. Households reduced their consumption expenditures on durables and social activities by, respectively, 24 percent and 36 percent in response to one hundred extra infections per one hundred thousand inhabitants per week. The effect was concentrated among the elderly, whose mortality risk from COVID-19 infection was arguably the highest.

Keywords: consumption; health risk; pandemic; COVID-19; survey data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 E21 E32 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2023-05
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