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Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …
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This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …
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We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico …
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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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). How has this affected household well-being? The paper first develops a new model to address this issue. The inflation tax … long as inflation is positive). The inflation gain on household wealth is the revaluation resulting from asset price …
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This paper examines the relationship between household balance sheets, consumer purchases, and expectations. We find … an explicit role for unemployment and for household debt. We find that the model is capable of explaining several …
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We investigate the stochastic relation between income and consumption (specifically, consumption of food) within a panel of about 2,000 households. Our major findings are: 1. Consumption responds much more strongly to permanent than to transitory movements of income. 2. The response to...
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