Professor Thomas F. Crossley

Recall food expenditure data, which is the basis of a great deal of empirical work, is believed to suffer from considerable measurement error.

Using recall and diary food expenditure data from Canada, we compare estimates of the household size elasticity of per capita food expenditure.

Can survey participation alter household saving behaviour?

We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task.

The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some risk-averse individuals to gamble to have a chance of crossing a purchasing threshold.

This special issue of Fiscal Studies brings together a set of papers on the collection and analysis of household-level data on wealth.

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians.

We investigate whether different ages of first-time house buying lead to persistent differences in homeownership between cohorts.

The authors investigate life-cycle patterns of demand for services from household durables using UK panel data.

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare.

This research includes work on consumption and saving, on poverty and inequality, and on risk sharing and insurance.

This paper received the 2017 Atkinson Award. The award is named Tony Atkinson, who was the founding editor of JPubE in 1972 and served as editor for 26 years, and is given every other year to the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics.

This paper provides new evidence on the long-standing question of whether more affluent households save a larger fraction of their income.

This paper evaluates a novel form of fiscal stimulus: a temporary cut in the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT).