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We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. With additively...
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Expenditure Survey data, we then document levels and volatilities of different groups of consumption goods expenditures, as well …
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life cycle for total, for nondurable and for durable expenditures. Changes in household size account for roughly half of …
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