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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...
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asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the discontinuity created by the attribution of the prize, we show that readers receive the signal sent by the jury of the Booker and are persuaded to buy the awarded book but experience...
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The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …
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In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...
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We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …
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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 …
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both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice … variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because … they value (joint) household production more in their utility function. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish men, on the other …
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surveys. Results show that a SSB tax would be much more effective in decreasing household nutrients purchase than it would … terms of reduced household medical expenditure, would overcome estimated welfare losses by more than $400 million. …
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taxation ; household production ; public goods …
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