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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households

Roth, Anja - 2019

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...

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Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-College Periods : New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations

Crossley, Thomas F.; Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; … - 2021

Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults’ beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce a new measure of the ex post accuracy of beliefs, and two new approaches...

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Furlough and Household Financial Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Görtz, Christoph; McGowan, Danny; Yeromonahos, Mallory - 2021

payments though the Mortgage Holiday Scheme. Furloughed individuals significantly reduce expenditure and spend their savings to …

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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich : Means Testing or Higher Tax?

Apps, Patricia - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict

Gehring, Kai - 2019

We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal variation in international drug prices with spatial variation in the suitability to produce opium, we show that higher drug prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in...

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Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Income

Aksoy, Yunus - 2020

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...

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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022

Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...

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Parental Resources and College Attendance : Evidence from Lottery Wins

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2021

We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and substantial variation in win size and timing. While per-dollar effects are modest, the relationship is...

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Nineteenth Through Early 20th Century Female and Male Statures within the Household

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...

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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …

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