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How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks?

Krueger, Dirk; Malkov, Egor; Perri, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use panel data from the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth from 1991 to 2016 to document empirically what … components of the household budget constraint change in response to shocks to household labor income, both over shorter and over … which include shocks to the value of household wealth are necessary to fully evaluate the sources and the consequences of …

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Household Spending Responses to the Economic Impact Payments of 2020 : Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Parker, Jonathan A.; Schild, Jake; Erhard, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey and variation in amount, receipt, and timing of receipt of Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) authorized by the CARES Act, this paper estimates that people spent less of their EIPs in the few months following arrival than in similar previous policy episodes and...

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Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?

Shapiro, Matthew D. - 2009

Only one-fifth of respondents to a rider on the University of Michigan Survey Research Center's Monthly Survey said that the 2008 tax rebates would lead them to mostly increase spending. Almost half said the rebate would mostly lead them to pay off debt, while about a third saying it would lead...

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The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending

Cogan, John F. - 2008

In this paper, we estimate the effect of the tax preference for health insurance on health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1996-2005. We use the fact that Social Security taxes are only levied on earnings below a statutory threshold to identify the impact...

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The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates -- Evidence from Consumer Credit Data

Agarwal, Sumit - 2007

We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 Federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that, on...

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Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001

Johnson, David S. - 2004

Under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, most U.S. taxpayers received a tax rebate between July and September, 2001. The week in which the rebate was mailed was based on the second-to-last digit of the taxpayer's Social Security number, a digit that is effectively...

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Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys

Shapiro, Matthew D. - 2002

In 2001, many households received rebate checks as advanced payments of the benefit of the new, 10 percent federal income tax bracket. A survey conducted at the time the rebates were mailed finds that few households said that the rebate led them mostly to increase spending. A follow-up survey in...

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Consumer Response to Tax Rebates

Shapiro, Matthew D. - 2001

Many households received income tax rebates in 2001 of $300 or $600. These rebates represented advance payments of the tax cut from the new 10 percent tax bracket. Based on a survey of a representative sample of households, this paper finds that only 22 percent of households receiving the rebate...

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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures : Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Jones, Lauren E. - 2015

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family's ability to purchase direct inputs into child education...

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Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption

Albouy, David - 2014

Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of the property tax. These benefits also help counter the penalty federal taxes impose on households who work in productive high-wage areas, but reinforce incentives to consume...

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