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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Tax Incentives under Preference Heterogeneity: An Application to Employer-provided Electric Cars
Dimitropoulos, Alexandros; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Koster, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This paper presents an approach for the estimation of welfare effects of tax policy changes under heterogeneity in consumer preferences. The approach is applied to evaluate the welfare effects of current tax advantages for electric vehicles supplied as fringe benefits by employers. Drawing on...
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Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: Why Empirical Estimates differ
Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … synthesize research results on price and income elasticities of residentialwater demand report in the literature. These … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Risk Aversion and the Subjective Time Discount Rate: A Joint Approach
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Booij, Adam S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
coefficient of -.3. Furthermore we explain γ and ρ by income,age, gender, entrepreneurship and an obesity index. Very significant …
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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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Adoption of Electric Vehicle in the Netherlands – A Stated Choice Experiment
Bockarjova, M.; Rietveld, P.; Knockaert, J.S.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
In this paper, we apply a dynamic innovation diffusion framework to model adoption of full electric vehicles where we explicitly distinguish three major phases of adoption: introduction, growth and maturity. We combine this approach with an SP study to elicit individual preferences for...
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Non-take-up of Tax-favored Savings Plans: Are Household Portfolios Optimal?
Alessie, Rob; Hochguertel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and the returns as well as the withdrawals are...
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US and European Household Debt and Credit Constraints
Crook, Jonathan; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in...
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Reconciling Consumption Inequality with Income Inequality
Lepetyuk, Vadym; Stoltenberg, Christian A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The rise in within-group consumption inequality in response to the increase in within-group income inequality over the …
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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility over the Life Cycle
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
cumulation. There are also limited precautionary motives for wealth accumulation when households experience income uncertainty. …
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