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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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Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?

Sinai, Todd M. - 2010

Conventional wisdom holds that one of the riskiest aspects of owning a house is the uncertainty surrounding its sale price, especially if one moves to another housing market. However, households who sell a house typically buy another house, whose purchase price is also uncertain. We show that...

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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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The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates -- Evidence from Consumer Credit Data

Agarwal, Sumit - 2007

We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...

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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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Consumer Sentiment : Its Rationality and Usefulness in Forecasting Expenditure - Evidence from the Michigan Micro Data

Souleles, Nicholas S. - 2021

This paper provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of the household data underlying the Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment. This data is used to test the rationality of consumer expectations and to assess their usefulness in forecasting expenditure. The results can also be interpreted...

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Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001

Johnson, David; Parker, Jonathan A.; Souleles, Nicholas S. - 2021

Consumer Expenditure Survey, we exploit this historically unique experiment to measure the change in consumption expenditures …

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang, Julia Shu-Huah - 2018

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies – Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC) – that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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