Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence
非线性持久性下消费对收入冲击反应的异质性
In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. We build on the nonlinear quantile framework introduced in Arellano et al. (2017). Our focus is on the estimation of consumption responses to persistent nonlinear income shocks in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. To reliably estimate heterogeneous responses in our unbalanced panel, we develop…