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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020
the change in wealth over the period. The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of using this … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this …
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Imputing consumption from Norwegian income and wealth registry data
Fagereng, Andreas; Halvorsen, Elin - 2015
households from administrative records of income and wealth. Expenditure surveys tend to suffer from limited sample sizes and …
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MPC heterogeneity and household balance sheets
Fagereng, Andreas; Holm, Martin B.; Natvik, Gisle J. - 2016
Using Norwegian administrative data, we study how sizable lottery prizes affect household expenditure and savings. Expenditure responses (MPCs) spike in the year of winning, with a mean estimate of 0.35, and thereafter fall markedly. Controlling for all items on the household balance sheet and...
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2015
Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and socioeconomic characteristics. The mechanism by …
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Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales
Lind, Jo Thori - 2001
A common approach to defining equivalence scales is to consider a household modelled as if it maximizes a single utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare function of individual utilities. For a positive analysis of the household, this may be...
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Distributional and Environmental Effects of Taxes on Transportation
Aasness, Jørgen; Larsen, Erling Røed - 2002
This article studies environmental and distributional effects from a differentiated tax system on a set of disaggregated transportation goods. Empirical examination on Norwegian data indicates that higher tax rates on high-pollution luxury modes of transportation such as air flights and taxis...
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Consumption Inequality in Norway in the 80s and 90s
Larsen, Erling Røed - 2002
This article describes the consumption model and inequality study of Chapter 2 in the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation submitted at the Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The Norwegian Research Council and Statistics Norway financed the project; project no....
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A Statistical Model for Simple, Fast and Reliable Measurement of Poverty
Mathiassen, Astrid - 2006
The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding household budget or integrated survey over 12 months. Rather than...
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Distributional Effects of Environmental Taxes on Transportation. Evidence from Engel Curves in the United States
Larsen, Erling Røed - 2005
Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement because of political resistance due to possibly adverse affects on equity. For this...
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Effects of Family Policy Reforms in Norway. Results from a Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Microsimulation Analysis
Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2006
Mothers of preschool children represent one part of the population that might be able to increase its labor supply. We discuss effects of family policy changes that encourage the labor supply of these mothers, as child care fee reductions and increased availability of center-based care. Effects...
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