Consumer Participation in CSR: Spending Money versus Spending Time

Spending money to save money.

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

Spending Time and Money within the Household

We consider theoretically and empirically the allocation of time and money within the household. The novelty of our empirical work is that we have a survey which provides information on both time use and the allocation of some goods within the household, for the same households. Thus we can consider whether a partner who enjoys more leisure also receives more consumption, which looks like the o...

Saving money by spending more.

Debt, Delinquencies, and Consumer Spending

Analysts forecasting the course of the U.S. economy pay close attention to consumer spending. Because personal consumption expenditures make up about twothirds of the country’s gross domestic product, factors that could influence consumer spending can have significant effects on the economy’s health. Among these factors, the sharp increase of household indebtedness and the rising share of incom...

Spending money on others promotes happiness.

Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on other people may have a more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself. Providing converging evidence for this hypothesis, we found that spending more o...