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[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...
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of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
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and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a …
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on consumption, in comparison to shocksto the income stream.[...] …
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responsible for elderlypeople’s living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private andpublic income transfers to elderly … to the income of the elderly households,particularly poorer households, while public transfers do not make anysignificant …
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) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …
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There are two sources of inconsistency in existing cross-country empiricalwork on growth: correlated individual effects and endogenous explanatoryvariables. We estimate a variety of cross- country growth regressions usinga generalized method of moments estimator that eliminates both problems.In...
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We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justification forcapital income taxation: goods preferred by … of income and consumption and find that, when ability ispositively related to a preference for a good, optimal marginal … commoditytaxes on this good may be regressive: i.e., declining with income. We derivean analytical expression for optimal commodity …
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We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justi…cation for capital income taxation: goodspreferred by … functions of income and consumption and …nd that, when ability is positivelyrelated to a preference for a good, optimal marginal … commodity taxes on this good may be regressive: i.e.,declining with income. We derive an analytical expression for optimal …
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