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This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …
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Mortgage cramdown enabled bankruptcy judges to discharge the underwater portion of a mortgage during Chapter 13 bankruptcy before the Supreme Court disallowed this practice in 1993. We exploit the random assignment of cases to judges to quantify the ex-post effects of Chapter 13 bankruptcy over...
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The growing "electrify everything" movement aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by transitioning households and firms away from natural gas toward electricity. This paper considers what this transition means for the customers who are left behind. Like most natural monopolies, natural gas...
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We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household wealth and unearned income. Our …
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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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The growth of the availability and use of detailed household financial transaction microdata has dramatically expanded … the ability of researchers to understand both household decision-making as well as aggregate fluctuations across a wide …
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first review standard data sources and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. We then document that household inflation …
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This paper documents the share of investable wealth that middle-class U.S. investors hold in the stock market over their working lives. This share rises modestly early in life and falls significantly as people approach retirement. Prior to 2000, the average investor held less of their investable...
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As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along with the mean perceived and expected level of inflation. Simultaneously, the inflation experienced by households became more dispersed. Using matched micro data on spending of...
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. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
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