Reports on Sustainable Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Provide New Insights (Sustainable Consumption and the Economic Well-being of American Households): Sustainability Research – Sustainable Economy

2026 APR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Fitness & Wellness Daily -- Current study results on Sustainability Research - Sustainable Economy have been published. According to news reporting originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Sustainable consumption’ defines a comprehensive measure of household economic well-being that integrates income, assets, debt, transfers, and rates of return to estimate a feasible lifetime consumption path. We find that sustainable consumption anchors actual spending, with deviations in one period adjusting back toward the sustainable level in subsequent periods.”

Funders for this research include Institute for New Economic Thinking, Private Debt Project, Weidenbaum Center at Washington University.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, “After the Great Recession, sustainable consumption fell more than actual consumption, in part due to lower real asset returns. Decomposing sustainable consumption into its components reveals primary support from taxable income, but its share has declined while Social Security’s has grown.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Substantial differences are also evident across race-ethnicity and educational levels.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Sustainable Consumption and the Economic Well-being of American Households. Economic Inquiry, 2026. Economic Inquiry can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Economic Inquiry - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1465-7295)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Daniel H. Cooper, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70046. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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