Arbeitspapier

Pandemic Consumption

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10397

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Health Behavior
Thema
consumption
health risk
pandemic
COVID-19
survey data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bachmann, Ruediger
Bayer, Christian
Kornejew, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bachmann, Ruediger
  • Bayer, Christian
  • Kornejew, Martin
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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