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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja - 2019
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
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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 …
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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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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas - 2008
This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
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Efficiency in family bargaining: living arrangements and caregiving decisions of adult children and disabled elderly parents
Pezzin, Liliana E.; Pollak, Robert A.; Schone, Barbara S. - 2007
In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264063
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Economic growth and subjective well-being: reassessing the Easterlin paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008
The Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
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The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. After establishing a normative framework, we examine the properties of the...
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The quantity and quality of teachers: a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2009
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers' collective...
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Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Income
Aksoy, Yunus - 2020
We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...
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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2019
prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860581