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We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
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terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … non-migrants' consumption, but that this consumption gain cannot be explained by labor supply adjustments. Migration …
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The cost-of-living crisis has increased attention on consumption and how it differs for particular societal groups …. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women should differ, but the empirical evidence is … scant, due in part to the availability of individual-level consumption data. This paper tackles the question of consumption …
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act on their updated beliefs with a small increase in current consumption. Negative news from a scaled-down plan leads to …
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In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the General Social Survey. The exogenous shift in the cost of religious participation is a result of...
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house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for the UK. On the one hand, Campbell and Cocco … impact on consumption across age groups, consistent with the so-called common factor hypothesis. First, we confirm that the … construction, and provide evidence that the functional form (i.e., an Euler equation of consumption vs. a reduced form life …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …
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In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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