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Consumption smoothing and the structure of labor and credit markets
Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002
volatility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411452
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Rationalizing rational expectations? : tests and deviations
D'Haultfœuille, Xavier; Gaillac, Christophe; Maurel, Arnaud - 2018
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two different datasets that cannot be matched....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951089
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Rational expectations and the puzzling no-effect of the minimum wage
Pinoli, Sara - 2010
This paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment effect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962625
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours: does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703131
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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India : evidence from micro-data
Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534147
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Consumption and social identity : evidence from India
Khamis, Melanie; Prakash, Nishith; Siddique, Zahra - 2010
distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … result of the status signaling nature of such consumption items. -- households ; consumption ; India …
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Was the mandal commission right? : living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Sen, Kunal (contributor);  … - 2008
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688798
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The impact of employment quotas on the economic lives of disadvantaged minorities in India
Prakash, Nishith - 2020
India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313957
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A shot at economic prosperity : long-term effects of India's childhood immunization program on earnings and consumption expenditure
Summan, Amit; Nandi, Arindam; Bloom, David E. - 2022
the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …
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