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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are … are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … closer to the acceptance of the hypothesis than unmarried couples without children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972980
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
This paper investigates empirically the consumer demand of environmentally relevant goods for Germany, as well as their relationship to the demand for leisure. Higher prices for energy goods like gas, electricity or fuel oil due to higher indirect taxation amongst others may have serious welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340294
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010472
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Estimation of household demand systems using unit value data
Crawford, Ian; Laisney, François; Preston, Ian - 1997
these features to develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links …
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Spending effects of child-related fiscal transfers
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Lewis, Vivien; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2022
. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268076
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Demand systems with unit values : a comparison of two specifications
Lahatte, Agénor; Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François; … - 1997
The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the … estimation of price reactions on the basis of unit values. We compare two specifications that have been proposed in this context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427724
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UK consumers' habits
Banerjee, Ryan; Batini, Nicoletta - 2003
We follow Fuhrer (2000) in estimating via Maximum Likelihood a log-linear consumption function on UK data. In doing so we consider various habit formation assumptions. We show that a model of purely external habits as in Fuhrer (2000) fits the UK data remarkably well, and possibly in a superior...
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Expenditure patterns, heterogeneity and long-term structural change
Clements, Kenneth W.; Mariano, Marc Jim; Verikios, George - 2021
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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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Estimation of the Brazilian consumer demand system
Asano, Seki; Fiuza, Eduardo P. S. - 2015
In this study we estimate the Brazilian consumer demand system through family expenditure data, which cover all consumption categories. The model is estimated from family-level expenditures on seven consumption categories, and a new set of regional cost-of-living indexes. The sources for...
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