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Household Consumption and Savings over the Life Cycle: The Roles of Demographics and Durables

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The canonical prediction of life-cycle models, that individuals smooth consumption over their lifetime, has been mostly tested for developed countries and found little empirical support. We provide a novel, developing country perspective by analyzing patterns of life-cycle consumption, income and savings rates in India. In contrast to the U.S., Indian households exhibit no growth in nondurable consumption expenditures after adjusting for family size. We present evidence that saving for lumpy investments in consumer durables is a key driver of high savings rates and flat nondurable consumption over the life cycle in India.

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  • Neha Bairoliya & Areendam Chanda & Jingyi Fang & Fang Yang, 2025. "Household Consumption and Savings over the Life Cycle: The Roles of Demographics and Durables," Working Papers 2537, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:feddwp:101973
    DOI: 10.24149/wp2537
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    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General

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