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distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … spend eleven percent less, after controlling for differences in permanent income and demographic composition of households …
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, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue (fiscal neutrality), the effects of various hypothetical tax … basic income (Universal or Participation Basic Income) and adopting progressive tax-rules. If – besides the fiscal …
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This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical...
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households …
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This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a … Samuelson. This nests as special cases the objective functions used in currently popular models of households engaged in one …
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Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours are positively related to spousal education at the time of...
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Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with … jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different theoretical mechanisms for the …
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
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We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income … children. The data reveals a large dispersion in tax rates and taxes paid. Ranking households according to the average tax … married and 31.8% of unmarried households do not pay any taxes. Given the progressivity in the system, tax liabilities are …
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