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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265290
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216747
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Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data
Blundell, Richard; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
stochastic simulation of consumption choices in a nonstationarity environment is used to show the robustness of the method for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371904
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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio; van Rens, Thijs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable lifecycle … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703321
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households …This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566824
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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884192
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Aggregation without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer
Cherchye, Laurens; Crawford, Ian; De Rock, Bram; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416928
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Gender Differences in Charitable Giving
Piper, Greg; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last result generally derives from the focus on mean amount given. This paper examines gender differences in giving focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762335
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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered response models which allows us to distinguish between cut …
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