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process using two data sets: the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a large, synthetic, data set that matches the dynamics of …
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of an agent's level of consumption depends on his legal income and initial level of wealth, as conspicuous consumption by …
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This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend …
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Business income is important in the upper tail of the personal income distribution, but the extent to which it is … captured by measures of personal income varies substantially across tax regimes. Using linked individual and firm data from … Norway, we are able to attribute business income to personal owners as it accrues rather than when it is realized. This …
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used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …
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Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth … significantly higher values than income volatility, the effect being mostly driven by changes in the market value of real estate …
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How sensitive are the earnings of top earners to business cycles? And, how does the business cycle sensitivity of top earners vary by industry? We use a confidential dataset on earnings histories of US males from the Social Security Administration. On average, individuals in the top 1% of the...
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We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …
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This article studies the optimal use of fines and imprisonment when an offender's level of wealth is private information that cannot be observed by the enforcement authority. In a model in which there are two levels of wealth, I derive the optimal mix of sanctions, including the imprisonment...
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This paper proposes and studies a theory of adaptive consumption behavior under income uncertainty and liquidity …
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