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Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

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Uniform sharing

Wolf, Alex - 2019

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...

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Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

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Income risk and consumption inequality: A simulation study

Blundell, Richard W.; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data. We develop a specific approximation to the optimal consumption growth rule and use Monte Carlo evidence to show that this approximation can provide a robust...

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Partial insurance, information and consumption dynamics

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2002

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

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Lifetime inequality and redistribution

Brewer, Mike; Dias, Monica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …

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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - 2011

We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...

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Inequality in socioemotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Blundell, Richard W.; Conti, Gabriella - 2018

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … activities, respectively. Using recent methodological advances in factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality … of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average level. We document for the first time that inequality in …

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Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service

Beckert, Walter; Kelly, Elaine - 2017

A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

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