id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cj82k646g5f Wei Qian Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics 2020 .txt text/plain 324 12 42 Exploiting this information treatment as an exogenous source of variation in house price expectations, I show that a one percentage point increase in nationwide house price expectations over the next 12 months leads to about a 0.4 percentage point increase in intended total household spending growth over the same period. In chapter one, I examine the causal effect of house price expectations on individuals' spending decisions using a survey-based experiment. cache/cj82k646g5f.txt txt/cj82k646g5f.txt