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Impacts of COVID-19 on household welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, … - 2020
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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The effect of child benefits on financial difficulties and spending habits: evidence from Poland's Family 500+ program
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we explore the causal...
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015
social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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Remittances and household expenditure behaviour in Senegal
Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob - 2014
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a …
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Family finances and debt overhang : evolving consumption patterns of Spanish households
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2022
This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …
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Households in transit : COVID-19 and the changing measurement of welfare
Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022
methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …
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Time savings when working from home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers, and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
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