Income Shocks, Consumption, Wealth, and Human Capital: Evidence from Russia Academic Article

abstract

• Using data from phase 2 of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-96, 1998, and 2000-2003, the differences of consumption smoothing among households with different levels of wealth and human capital were examined. For the empirical analysis, the attrition bias was corrected with the inverse probability weighting method. The random coeffient model with average treatment effects was used to estimate the wealth and education effect on consumption smoothing. It was found that household income affects consumption. Furthermore, evidence was derived to support the hypothesis that household education is associated with more effectiveness in consumption smoothing. This observation was particularly true for urban households.

authors

• Mu, Ren

published proceedings

• Economic Development and Cultural Change

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Mu, R.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Mu, Ren

publication date

• July 2006

publisher

• University Of Chicago Press  Publisher

published in

• Economic Development and Cultural Change  Journal

keywords

• Consumption Smoothing
• Income Shocks
• RUSSIA
• Sample Attrition

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1086/503581

start page

• 857

end page

• 892

volume

• 54

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/503581