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Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time
Cudmore, Edgar - 2007
In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption … together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable … public good to members of the household; one example would be where all household members or one alone can watch TV. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465143
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A General Equilibrium Model of Housing, Taxes, and Portfolio Choice
Berkovec, James - 1990
We describe a model in which rental and owner housing are risky assets, tenure choice is endogenous, and each household … is constrained to consume the same amount of owner housing as it has in its investment portfolio. At each iteration in … major determinants of the amount of owner housing, but a logit model indicates that demographic factors are the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475521
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464364
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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2007
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465193
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The Well-being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK
Bell, David N.F. - 2018
In this paper we build on our earlier work on underemployment using data from the UK. In particular, we explore their well-being based on hours preferences rather than on involuntary part-time work used in the prior literature. We make use of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452881
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Health and labor force participation over the life cycle : evidence from the past
Costa, Dora L. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480749
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322884
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372485
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Changes in Household Living Arrangements 1950-76
Michael, Robert T. - 1980
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478656
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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data
McLaren, John - 2016
of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455750