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Fifteen Years On : Household Incomes in South Africa
Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011
This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between …
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How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Realized and Anticipated Effects
Monheit, Alan C. - 2014
Families in constrained economic circumstances resulting from economic shocks face difficult choices regarding how best to spend their diminished resources. As families strive to preserve their living standards, decisions regarding health care use and its allocation among family members may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458319
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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China
Gan, Li - 2006
major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results … show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a shock-hit household on average falls short of its normal income trajectory …. In addition, village elections reduce the probability of a household to borrow by 16.7% when one of its working adults is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465975
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How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income
Golosov, Michail Ju.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household wealth and unearned income. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599290
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Fertility and Savings : The Effect of China's Two-Child Policy on Household Savings
Baker, Scott; Benmelech, Efraim; Zhishu Yang; Zhang, Qi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172155
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The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income : Estimates from Panel Data on Households
Hall, Robert E. - 1980
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478631
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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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Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups : What Are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs?
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2018
This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480833
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Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?
Baker, Scott R. - 2018
When the zero lower bound on nominal interest rate binds, monetary policy makers may lack traditional tools to stimulate aggregate demand. We investigate whether "unconventional" fiscal policy, in the form of pre-announced consumption tax changes, has the potential to meaningfully shift durables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480864
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Debt Relief and Slow Recovery : A Decade after Lehman
Piskorski, Tomasz - 2018
We follow a representative panel of millions of consumers in the U.S. from 2007 to 2017 and document several facts on the long-term effects of the Great Recession. There were about six million foreclosures in the ten-year period after Lehman's collapse. Owners of multiple homes accounted for 25%...
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