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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks
Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022
We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...
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Intergenerational Mobility and Macroeconomic History Dependence
Mokherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan - 2006
That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on … endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502955
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings … would provide more insurance if based on lifetime instead of annual earnings. Requiring wealthy individuals to repay social … assistance received when younger would strengthen the insurance and redistributive functions of social assistance. …
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Income shocks, borrowing constraints and household child schooling : evidence from rural Thailand
Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2021
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Can income shocks polarize? : theory and evidence from natural resource windfalls
Ikan, Lotem; Lagziel, David; Raveh, Ohad - 2024
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We don't need no education : the effect of income shocks on human capital in Africa
Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2024
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House Price Fluctuations and Residential Sorting
Haavio, Markus; Kauppi, Heikki - 2009
Empirical evidence indicates local jurisdictions are internally more heterogeneous than standard sorting models predict. We develop a dynamic multi-region model, with fluctuating regional house prices, where an owner-occupying household's location choice depends on its current wealth and its...
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Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda
Baulia, Susmita - 2018
A stylised fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children's preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...
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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge
Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014
This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...
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