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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314691
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The Saving Glut of the Rich and the Rise in Household Debt
Mian, Atif R. - 2020
across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837475
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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274876
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582134
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice : Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; Maes, Sebastiaan; Sadeleer, Liebrecht De; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228344
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk
Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - 2013
Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293913
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Redistribution through Income Taxation and Public Utility Pricing in the Presence of Energy Efficiency Considerations
Feger, Fabian; Radulescu, Doina - 2018
2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931945
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799698
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Lost in Translation: What do Engel Curves Tell us about the Cost of Living?
Almås, Ingvild; Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2018
The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method confiates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels. Assuming a single price index across the income distribution is inconsistent with the downward sloping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815779
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Redistribution Through Income Taxation and Public Utility Pricing in the Presence of Energy Efficiency Considerations
Feger, Fabian - 2018
2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908694