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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Inq. 2018 Dec 13;57(2):972–996. doi: 10.1111/ecin.12753

Table 4:

IV Regressions of Change in Log Spending on Change in Housing Wealth Robustness Checks

Always HO (i) No Unemp (ii) Same State (iii)

Δln(Housing Wealth)Non–Recession −0.022 (0.040) −0.052 (0.042) −0.007 (0.043)
Δln(Housing Wealth)Recession 0.361** (0.157) 0.379** (0.158) 0.332** (0.156)

Implied Marginal Propensity to Consume

MPCNon–Recession −0.005 (0.009) −0.011 (0.008) −0.001 (0.010)
MPCRecession 0.060*** (0.022) 0.058** (0.025) 0.056** (0.023)

N 7,869 8,670 7,730

Standard errors clustered at the state level in parentheses. ***, ** and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively. In each survey wave we drop households with changes in log spending in the top 1% or bottom 1% of the sample. Set of regressors as in column (ii) of Table 3.