Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article JCR Forthcoming Issue March 1982 Get access Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 8, Issue 3, December 1981, BackCover, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/8.3.BackCover Published: 01 December 1981

Journal Article JCR Forthcoming Issue June 1981 Get access Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 7, Issue 4, March 1981, BackCover, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/7.4.BackCover Published: 01 March 1981

Journal Article Rejoinder Get access Gillian Garcia Gillian Garcia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 7, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 422–424, https://doi.org/10.1086/208833 Published: 01 March 1981 Article history Received: 01 December 1980 Published: 01 March 1981

Journal Article Where Two Heads Are Better Than One Get access Robert Ferber Robert Ferber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 7, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.1086/208834 Published: 01 March 1981

Although derived from the USDA economy food plan, the Federal poverty thresholds have no real basis in a criterion of nutritional adequacy, but are a relative measure of poverty, suggesting that biological minima cannot be used to define poverty in a developed country.

Time use is described for adults who recorded no television viewing in diaries kept in conjunction with the 1975–76 University of Michigan national probability survey on time use. Results show nonviewers more active than viewers in almost all forms of activity involving work, child rearing, recreation, personal care, education, and social interaction.

Multiple classification analysis is used to examine the relative importance of physical/structural, socioeconomic, and demographic factors in shaping household responses to changes in the cost and availability of energy. Two coping strategies analyzed are switching to alternative and less-expensive fuels for space heating and investing in home retrofitting. Results show that physical/structural characteristics of the familial microenvironments are more important than socioeconomic and family factors in molding consumption levels and behavioral adaptations.

By applying data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to a household utility maximization model, it was found that number and presence of young children tend to increase, whereas “quality” of children tends to decrease, the time wives devote to household production (including child care).