'Consumption Inequality and Partial Insurance' by Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston, published in the American Economic Review in December 2008 has been identified by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators as a Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Economics and Business, which means it is one of the most-cited papers in its discipline published during the past two years.
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