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Racial Heterogeneity in Consumption Responses to the Economic Impact Payment

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  • Yulina Goto
  • Makoto Nakajima

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We investigate how the consumption responses to the Economic Impact Payment during the pandemic (commonly known as the pandemic stimulus check) differed across racial groups, and what accounts for the differences. If only family size and age are controlled, as in the baseline regression of Parker et al. (2022), in addition to race, Black and Hispanic households exhibit a higher marginal propensity to consume (MPC, preferred estimate being 0.29) than Whites (0.16) in response to monetary transfers under the Economic Impact Payment. This racial heterogeneity is accounted for by differences in liquid wealth holdings

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  • Yulina Goto & Makoto Nakajima, 2026. "Racial Heterogeneity in Consumption Responses to the Economic Impact Payment," Working Papers 26-06, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedpwp:102352
    DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2026.06
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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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