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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. …
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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...
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Household bargaining, pension contributions and retirement expectations : evidence from the German Panel on Household Finances
Fernandes, Inês; Schmidt, Tobias - 2021
pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement … household resources amongst each other in retirement. Finally, our data indicate that intracouple information sharing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697947
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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany
Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012
regressions. We also find heterogeneity in retirement effects among birth cohorts, the level of household wealth, and the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559647
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On factors of consumer heterogeneity in (mis)valuation of future energy costs : evidence for the German automobile market
Pleshcheva, Vlada; Klapper, Daniel; Dannewald, Till - 2019
In this paper, we first recover the individual valuation of expected future fuel costs at the time of a car purchase and then explore how various factors relate to the recovered consumer undervaluation of fuel savings (on average, consumers' willingness-to-pay for a AC1 reduction in fuel costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976135
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Markups for consumers
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Kann, Alexander; Tsanko, Ilona - 2020
A central motivating factor for studying price markups is their effect on consumer welfare. Reported estimates of (firm-level) price markups in the literature, however, are often focused on industry or cross-country comparisons. These treat different industries equally rather than based on how...
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The effect of saving subsidies on household saving : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
scheme on households' propensities to save in a natural experiment framework. Estimation results from both the German Socio …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
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Precautionary motives in short-term cash management : evidence from German POS transactions
Eschelbach, Martina; Schmidt, Tobias - 2013
This paper empirically investigates whether individuals withhold a certain amount of cash for precautionary reasons at the point-of-sale (POS) in order to be able to cover future transactions that might have to be paid for in cash. Such behaviour is costly for consumers because it imposes...
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Tax-price elasticity of charitable donations : evidence from the German taxpayer panel
Adena, Maja - 2014
I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that the permanent tax-price elasticity varies...
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