Pandemic consumption / Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Martin Kornejew

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..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

April 2023

Erschienen:

Munich, Germany: CESifo ; April 2023

Reihe:

CESifo working papers - 10397 (2023)

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bachmann, Ruediger [VerfasserIn]
Bayer, Christian, 1977- [VerfasserIn]
Kornejew, Martin [VerfasserIn]

Links:

www.cesifo.org [kostenfrei]
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Themen:

COVID-19
Consumption
Health risk
Pandemic
Survey data

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (circa 26 Seiten) ; Illustrationen

Weitere IDs:

10419/272041

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1844794369