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Welfare Costs of Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Consumption Shocks

Kōnstantinidēs, Giōrgos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

household utility and benefits of eliminating idiosyncratic shocks related to the business cycle as 3.4% of utility. Estimates … the business cycle, estimate the negative skewness of shocks, target moments of idiosyncratic shocks from household … insuring idiosyncratic shocks unrelated to the business cycle, such as the death of a household's prime wage earner and job …

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Inflation's Impact on American Households

Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Eidschun, Erin F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The post-COVID price surge has reignited interest in inflation's impact on American households. Even if anticipated and with full market adjustments, inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal system, which is the focus of this paper. Inflation affects households...

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Family Planning : Program Effects

Miller, Grant - 2014

This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor...

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Local economic and political effects of trade deals : evidence from NAFTA

Choi, Jiwon; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Washington, Ebonya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why have white, less educated voters left the Democratic Party over the past few decades? Scholars have proposed ethnocentrism, social issues and deindustrialization as potential answers. We highlight the role played by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study...

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Who Bears the Costs of Inflation? Euro Area Households and the 2021–2022 Shock

Pallotti, Filippo; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo; Slacalek, Jirka; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

framework illustrating the numerous channels of the transmission mechanism of surprise inflation to household welfare guides our …

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The Demand for Money, Financial Innovation, and the Welfare Cost of Inflation : An Analysis with Household Data

Attanasio, Orazio - 1998

How far can shoe-leather go in explaining the welfare cost of inflation? Using a unique set of microeconomic data on households, we estimate the parameters of the demand for money derived from the generalized Baumol-Tobin model. Our data set contains information on average holdings of cash, on...

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Welfare Analysis of Tax Reforms Using Household Data

King, Mervyn A. - 1981

The paper discusses a methodology for calculating the distribution of gains and losses from a policy change using data for a large sample of households. Estimates are based on the equivalent income function, which is money metric utility defined over observable variables. This enables...

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Inferring Inequality with Home Production

Boerma, Job - 2017

We revisit the causes, welfare consequences, and policy implications of the dispersion in households' labor market outcomes using a model with uninsurable risk, incomplete asset markets, and a home production technology. Accounting for home production amplifies welfare-based differences across...

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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2006

We study the effect of welfare reform, broadly defined to include social policy changes in the 1990s, on the material well-being and expenditure patterns of poor single-mother families. Our research suggests that welfare reform did not affect total expenditures in households headed by...

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Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households

Friedberg, Leora - 2006

A growing literature offers indirect evidence that the distribution of bargaining power within a household influences … decisions made by the household. The indirect evidence links household outcomes to variables that are assumed to influence the … distribution of power within the household. In this paper, we have data on whether a husband or wife in the Health and Retirement …

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