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Child expenditure : the role of working mothers, lone parents, sibling composition and household provision
Farrell, Lisa; Shields, Michael - 2001
This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404134
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519886
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The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : a longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … periods of high unemployment, suggesting that the unemployment crisis in Greece is more devastating as it concerns more people …. Greece has been more deeply affected by the financial crisis than any other EU country, and this study contributes by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462650
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976873
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Innocent bystanders? : monetary policy and inequality in the US
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Küng, Lorenz; … - 2012
We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548662
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Evaluation of the underground economy in Quebec : a microeconomic approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - 2010
Lacroix (2009) using very different estimation methods and data. -- underground economy ; demand system ; household behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313314
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Earnings and consumption dynamics : a nonlinear panel data framework
Arellano, Manuel; Blundell, Richard W.; Bonhomme, Stéphane - 2015
We develop a new quantile-based panel data framework to study the nature of income persistence and the transmission of income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory innovation. The persistence of past shocks to earnings is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336956
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Measuring the shadow economy : endogenous switching regression with unobserved separation
Lichard, Tomáš; Hanousek, Jan; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012
separation enables the estimation of consumption-income gaps for both underreporting and truthful households. This avoids the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629667