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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

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Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2011

stimulus payments on nondurable expenditures during the three-month period in which the payments were received. Further, there …

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Leads on Macroeconomic Risks to and from the Household Sector

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2013

This chapter describes a system, called the LEADS system, for providing market participants, regulators, and households with information on the reallocation of resources within, from, and to the household sector in response to macroeconomic events. The household sector is both a propagator of...

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Asymmetric Consumption Smoothing

Baugh, Brian - 2018

Analyzing account-level data from an account aggregator, we find that households increase consumption when they receive (expected) tax refunds, as if they face liquidity constraints. However, these same households smooth consumption when making payments in other years, primarily by transferring...

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Reported Effects vs. Revealed-Preference Estimates : Evidence from the Propensity to Spend Tax Rebates

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2017

We evaluate the consistency of two methods for estimating the effect of an economic policy: i) asking people how the policy caused them to change their behavior (reported effects); ii) inferring this change using data on behavior and differences in treatment across people (revealed-preference...

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Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2010

The consumption of high-consumption households is more exposed to fluctuations in aggregate consumption and income than that of low-consumption households in the Consumer Expenditure (CEX) Survey. The exposure to aggregate consumption growth of households in the top 10 percent of the consumption...

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The Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 and the Aggregate Demand for Consumption

Broda, Christian M. - 2014

Using a survey of households in the Nielsen Consumer Panel and the randomized timing of disbursement of the 2008 Economic Stimulus Payments, we find that a household's spending rose by ten percent the week it received a Payment and remained high cumulating to 1.5-3.8 percent of spending over...

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Why Don't Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from a 25 Million Dollar Experiment

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2015

This paper evaluates theoretical explanations for the propensity of households to increase spending in response to the arrival of predictable, lump-sum payments, using households in the Nielsen Consumer Panel who received 25 million in randomly-distributed stimulus payments. The pattern of...

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Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations

Parker, Jonathan A.; Preston, Bruce J. - 2021

This paper uses data on the expenditures of households to explain movements in the average growth rate of consumption …

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