Handbook of U.S. Consumer Economics presents a deep understanding on key, current topics and a primer on the landscape of contemporary research on the U.S. consumer.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Empirical analysis of the US consumer: fact, fiction, and the future - Andrew Haughwout and Benjamin R. Mandel
• 2. Handbook of the consumer chapter: trends in household debt and credit - Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, Lauren Thomas and Wilbert van der Klaauw
• 3. Trends in household portfolio composition - Jesse Bricker, Kevin B. Moore and Jeffrey Thompson
• 4. Household debt and recession in Brazil - Gabriel Garber, Atif Mian, Jacopo Ponticelli and Amir Sufi
• 5. Rationality in the consumer credit market: choosing between alternative and mainstream credit - Sumit Agarwal and Marieke Bos
• 6. How do consumers respond to real income shocks? - JPMorgan Chase Institute
• 7. Spending to and through retirement - Sharon Carson, Katherine Roy, Je Oh and Joseph Marlo
• 8. Are millennials different? - Christopher J. Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine
• 9. China’s consumer spending e-commerce: facts and evidence from JD’s festival online sales - Wei Tian, Yang Yang and Miaojie Yu
• 10. Consumer expectations and the macroeconomy - Giorgio Topa
• 11. Macro forecasting using alternative data - Apurv Jain
• 12. Regional price parities in the United States - Bettina H. Aten
• 13. Measuring prices and real household consumption of medical goods: service-based versus disease-based approaches - Ralph Bradley and Brett Matsumoto
• 14. A brief history of the supplemental poverty measure - Thesia I. Garner and Liana E. Fox