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We document five effects of providing individuals with crowdsourced spending information about their peers (individuals with similar characteristics) through a FinTech app. First, users who spend more than their peers reduce their spending significantly, whereas users who spend less keep...
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We provide survey evidence on how households’ inflation expectations matter for their spending highlighting a behavioral distortion compared to the New Keynesian setup. A large share of households expects prices to remain stable instead of increasing. Such a belief is linked to individual...
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electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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effectiveness of demand-based policies, and their impact across household groups, in a more electrified future …
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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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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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This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
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of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the rich. The saving glut of the rich has been as large as … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top …
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