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Richer or more Numerous or both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957201
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Richer or More Numerous or Both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla - 2019
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892200
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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023
Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics" spread over the entire U.S. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377396
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News and Views on Public Finances: A Survey Experiment
Behringer, Jan; Dräger, Lena; Dullien, Sebastian; … - 2024
We use novel German survey data to investigate how perceptions and information about public finances influence attitudes towards public debt and fiscal rules. On average, people strongly underestimate the debt-to-GDP ratio, overestimate the interest-to-tax-revenue ratio and favor a tighter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534461
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A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy
Bachmann, Ruediger; Born, Benjamin; Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; … - 2021
We exploit the unexpected announcement of an immediate, temporary VAT cut in Germany in the second half of 2020 as a natural experiment to study the spending response to unconventional fiscal policy. We use survey and scanner data on households’ consumption expenditures and their perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799699
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What People Believe about Monetary Finance and What We Can('t) Do about It: Evidence from a Large-Scale, Multi-Country Survey Experiment
Hommes, Cars; Pinter, Julien; Salle, Isabelle - 2023
inflation and tax expectations associated to these policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377548
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019
natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179747
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The Effect of Childcare on Parental Earnings Trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425670
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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Mari; Maldonado, Dario; … - 2015
This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation. Consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. The information structure and labor supply decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480848
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The Effect of Childcare on Parental Earnings Trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2021
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314799