Arbeitspapier

Inflation at the household level

We use scanner data to estimate inflation rates at the household level. Households' inflation rates have an annual interquartile range of 6.2 to 9.0 percentage points. Most of the heterogeneity comes not from variation in broadly defined consumption bundles but from variation in prices paid for the same types of goods. Lower-income households experience higher inflation, but most cross-sectional variation is uncorrelated with observables. Households' deviations from aggregate inflation exhibit only slightly negative serial correlation. Almost all variability in a household's inflation rate comes from variability in household-level prices relative to average prices, not from variability in aggregate inflation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2017-13

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Distribution: General
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Thema
Inflation
Heterogeneity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kaplan, Greg
Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(wo)
Chicago, IL
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kaplan, Greg
  • Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Entstanden

  • 2017

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