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Time to eat : household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006
income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278946
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Income taxation of US households : basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233112
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Intra-household wealth and welfare inequality in the US : estimations from a collective model of labor supply
Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892483
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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350843
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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy : Sweden, 1810 - 2014
Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347159
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195489
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Data scarcity and poverty measurement
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603834
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Dynastic home equity
Benetton, Matteo; Kudlyak, Marianna; Mondragon, John - 2022
the importance of familial wealth for household wealth accumulation and housing wealth in particular. A back …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286209
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A convenient representation of the wealth distribution and more evidence on homeownership and wealth inequality in euro area countries
Biewen, Martin; Glaisner, Stefan; Kleimann, Rolf - 2021
the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We also present more evidence on the role of homeownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698172
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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective
Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212303