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Attention Allocation and Heterogenous Consumption Responses
Recessions often have detrimental effects on both employment and equity returns, forcingindividuals to make decisions about how to balance risks to their labor and capital income.In this paper, we study how individuals allocate their limited attention between capital income and labor income risks in a two-period consumption-saving model with recursive utility.Specifically, we examine how the optimal attention and consumption-saving decisions are influenced by individuals’ attention capacity, wealth endowments, income risks, and preferencesfor risk and time. We show that our model can ...