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The Consumption Effects of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis : Evidence from Household-Level Data
Jensen, Thais - 2015
Did the financial crisis spread from distressed banks to households through a contraction of the credit supply? We study this question with a dataset that contains observations on all accounts in Danish banks as well as comprehensive information about individual account holders and banks. We...
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MPC heterogeneity and household balance sheets
Fagereng, Andreas; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Natvik, Gisle … - 2018
to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872933
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Households' response to the wealth effects of inflation
Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - 2023
We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...
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Non-parametric preprocessing for the estimation of equivalence scales
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2014
Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458584
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Does inequality matter for the consumption-wealth channel? : empirical evidence
Arrondel, Luc; Lamarche, Pierre; Savignac, Frédérique - 2017
This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735887
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431287
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095928
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Consumption patterns of indebted households : unravelling the relevance of fiscal policy
Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 2023
We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household … consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used … government spending or reduced taxes, in the presence of high indebtedness, actually discourage household consumption compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314290
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Time variation in lifecycle consumption and income
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; St. Aubyn, Carolyn - 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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