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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness
Helliwell, John F.; Grover, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114858
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Why Do the Rich Save So Much?
Carroll, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper considers several alternative explanations for the fact that households with higher levels of lifetime income ( the rich') have higher lifetime saving rates (Dynan, Skinner, and Zeldes (1996); Lillard and Karoly (1997)). The paper argues that the saving behavior of the richest...
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Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy
Attanasio, Orazio; Weber, Guglielmo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper provides a critical survey of the large literature on the life cycle model of consumption, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. It discusses several approaches that have been taken in the literature to bring the model to the data, their empirical successes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624620
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On the Welfare Cost of Consumption Fluctuations in the Presence of Memorable Goods
Krueger, Dirk; Hai, Rong; Postlewaite, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
changes. We find that (i) the welfare cost of household-level consumption fluctuations may be overstated by 1.7 percentage …
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Disentangling Financial Constraints, Precautionary Savings, and Myopia: Household Behavior Surrounding Federal Tax Returns
Baugh, Brian; Ben-David, Itzhak; Park, Hoonsuk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We explore household consumption surrounding federal tax returns filings and refunds receipt to test various theories … of consumption. Because uncertainty regarding the refund is resolved at filing, precautionary savings theory predicts an …
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Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution
Chevalier, Judith; Kashyap, Anil - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We propose a method for constructing price indices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst heterogeneous customers. To do so, we introduce a model in which Loyal customers buy one brand and do not strategically time purchases, while Bargain Hunters always pay the lowest...
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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg; McConnell, Margaret; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In a field experiment in Uganda, we find that demand after a free distribution of three health products is lower than after a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put...
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Meier, Stephan; Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierre-André - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …
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