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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
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Optimal Carbon Taxation and Horizontal Equity : A Welfare-Theoretic Approach with Application to German Household Data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
welfare maximizing tax structure. We calibrate the model to German household data and a 30 percent emission reduction goal … revenue via household-specific transfers is the first-best policy. Equal per-capita transfers do not suffer from informational …
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Does Public Employment Affect Household Saving Rates? Evidence from Chinese Household Data
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from German household data and a labour supply schedule, using wage data, and …
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The Relationship between Prices and Output in the UK and the US
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Claudio-Quiroga, Gloria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between CPI and real GDP in both the US and the UK using fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques. All series appear to be highly trended and to exhibit high degrees of integration and persistence, especially in the case of CPI. Since the...
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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas,...
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Exititis in the UK : Gravity Estimates in the Aftermath of Brexit
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Kohl, Tristan - 2021
The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union has had disruptive effects on international trade. As part of its ‘Global Britain’ strategy, in the wake of Brexit, the UK is pursuing a series of Free Trade Agreements with countries around the world, including Canada, Japan,...
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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions
Anderberg, Dan - 2021
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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Modelling Persistence and Non-Linearities in the US Treasury 10-Year Bond Yields
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Yaya, … - 2022
This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the period 1962-2021 using two different fractional integration approaches including Chebyshev polynomials and Fourier functions respectively. The results for both quarterly and...
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Gold and Silver as Safe Havens : A Fractional Integration and Cointegration Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
This paper investigates whether gold and silver can be considered safe havens by examining their long-run linkages with 22 stock price indices. More specifically, the stochastic properties of the differential between gold/silver prices and 22 stock indices are analysed applying fractional...
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