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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area …
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We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …
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Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and non-college households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is … considerably larger than the college income premium. Over the past four decades, the wealth of American households with a college …
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...
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Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …
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deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …
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consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …
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, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality. …
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well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … extreme wealth inequality in society. …
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determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation in relation to other taxes, as well as the optimal differentiation of …
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